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INTEGRATED PROCEDURE FOR DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF FAULT-SOIL-STRUCTURE SYSTEMS

Jean H. Prevost - George Deodatis - Radu Popescu
Department of Civil Engineering and Operations Research
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544

Yoichi Nojiri - Naoto Ohbo
Kajima Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

July 1996

Abstract:

  An analysis procedure for fault-soil-structure systems based on the Monte Carlo simulation method is presented. Both ground motion (near field and far field) and spatial distribution of soil properties are first generated using various spectral representation-based procedures. Next, dynamic nonlinear finite element simulations with stochastic input are performed. The procedure is used for assessment of soil liquefaction potential and for predicting the seismic response of large scale structures.

• INTRODUCTION
• SEISMIC GROUND MOTION
  • Recorded Time Histories
  • Response Spectrum Compatible Acceleration
  • Synthesis of Earthquake Ground Motion
• ESTIMATION OF SOIL PROPERTIES
  • Stochastic Analysis of Field Data
  • Digital Generation of Vector Fields
  • Estimation of Soil Constitutive Parameters
  • Stochastic Input Finite Element Simulations
• NUMERICAL EXAMPLE
• Acknowledgements
• References
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