Strong Ground Motion Seismology

✍ Scribed by Keiiti Aki (auth.), Mustafa Özder Erdik, M. Nafi Toksöz (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 609
• Series: NATO ASI Series 204
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book contains selected papers presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Strong Ground Motion Seismology", held in Ankara, Turkey between June 10 and 21, 1985. The strong ground motion resulting from a major earthquake determines the level of the seismic hazard to enable earthquake engineers to assess the structural performance and the consecutive risks to the property and life, as well as providing detailed information to seismologists about its source mechanism. From the earthquake engineering point the main problem is the specification of a design level ground motion for a given source-site-structure-economic life and risk combination through deterministic and probabilistic approaches. In seismology the strong motion data provide the high frequency information to determine the rupture process and the complexity of the source mechanism. The effects of the propagation path on the strong ground motion is a research area receiving sub­ stantial attenuation both from earthquake engineers and seismologists. The Institute provided a venue for the treatment of the subject matter by a series of lectures on earthquake source models and near­ field theories; effects of propagation paths and site conditions, numerical and empirical methods for prediction; data acquisition and analysis; hazard assessment and engineering application.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Strong Motion Seismology....Pages 3-39
Earthquake Source Mechanisms: Case Studies....Pages 41-84
Source Parameters of Some Friuli Earthquakes (1976–1977) from Strong Motion Data....Pages 85-97
The Seismic Inverse Problem for a Flat Structure....Pages 99-106
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
The Prediction of Strong Ground Motion....Pages 109-141
A Theoretical Study of the Dependence of the Peak Ground Acceleration on Source and Structure Parameters....Pages 143-183
Numerical Simulation of Earthquake Ground Motion....Pages 185-207
High Frequency Earthquake Strong Ground Motion in Laterally Varying Media: The Effect of a Fault Zone....Pages 209-224
Physical Mechanisms Contributing to Seismic Attenuation in the Crust....Pages 225-247
Front Matter....Pages 249-249
Data Acquisition and Processing in Strong Motion Seismology....Pages 251-331
Strong Ground Motions in Italy: Accelerogram Spectral Properties and Prediction of Peak Values....Pages 333-354
Analysis of Strong-Motion Data from the New Hampshire Earthquake of 18 January 1982....Pages 355-367
Seismic Intensity and Its Applications to Engineering : A Study in Japan....Pages 369-384
Seismic Intensity and Its Applications to Engineering: A Study in Turkey....Pages 385-401
Front Matter....Pages 403-403
Probabilistic Models for Assessment of Strong Ground Motion....Pages 405-460
Seismic Source Regionalization....Pages 461-476
Front Matter....Pages 477-477
Site Response Analysis....Pages 479-534
Constitutive Relationships for Soil Dynamics....Pages 535-544
Source and Local Site Effects — Preliminary Results Based on the Friuli Earthquake Sequence 1976....Pages 545-558
Soil Structure Interaction Effects on Strong Ground Motion....Pages 559-580
Front Matter....Pages 477-477
Engineering Uses of Strong Motion Data....Pages 581-604
Back Matter....Pages 605-607

✦ Subjects

Geophysics/Geodesy; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences; Hydrogeology