Three-Dimensional Linear and Simplified Nonlinear Soil Response Methods Based on an Input Wave Field
Publication: International Journal of Geomechanics
Volume 6, Issue 5
Abstract
We propose three-dimensional linear and simplified nonlinear soil response methods based on an input seismic wave field. An input wave field is employed to treat seismic surface waves excited by a deep structure in a shallow soil model. First, the linear method is applied to a hard- and a soft-soil site located in Mexico City, and soil responses excited by -, surface-, and whole-wave fields reproduce the input waves fields well. Then, the linear method is applied to estimate soil responses for three large earthquakes at two soft-soil sites located in the reclaimed zone of Tokyo Bay, and again it works well. Finally, we attempt to perform nonlinear and liquefaction soil response analyses in the reclaimed zone, on the basis of an input wave field modified according to varied soil properties. The nonlinear method seems to provide reasonable nonlinear and liquefaction soil responses.
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Acknowledgments
The writers thank Mr. Roberto Quaas of the National Disaster Prevention Center of Mexico for providing the strong-motion accelerograms of Mexico City. Most of the accelerograms of Tokyo were provided as a dataset of “Strong motion array observation, No. 2” (1995) by the Association for Earthquake Disaster Prevention of Japan. Parts of the accelerograms of the Echujima station of Tokyo were supplied by Shimizu Corporation of Japan. Dr. Shunichi Fukumoto of Tokyo Soil Research Corporation gave helpful advice on nonlinear and liquefaction behavior of soils at the two stations of Tokyo. The critical readings by three anonymous reviewers greatly improved the manuscript.
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International Journal of Geomechanics
Volume 6 • Issue 5 • September 2006
Pages: 342 - 355
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Received: Aug 26, 2004
Accepted: Nov 18, 2005
Published online: Sep 1, 2006
Published in print: Sep 2006
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