Local site effect of a clay site in Shiraz based on seismic hazard of Shiraz Plain

Alireza Eskandarinejad (), Hamid Zafarani and Mojtaba Jahanandish
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Alireza Eskandarinejad: Shiraz University
Hamid Zafarani: International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (IIEES)
Mojtaba Jahanandish: Shiraz University

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 2018, vol. 90, issue 3, No 4, 1115-1135

Abstract: Abstract Propagation of seismic waves through soil layers would drastically change the frequency content and amplitude-based features of ground motions at the surface. These alterations are known as seismic site effects. Computation of site effects of high-populated areas such as large cities is of great importance (e.g., it is used in development of seismic microzonation of a region). Shiraz is one of the most populous cities of Iran and is located in a high seismic hazardous region. A representative clay site in this city is selected to assess local site effects. The time series and random vibration theory procedure in the frequency domain are implemented to analyze the aforementioned site. Furthermore, the nonlinear dynamic soil behavior is simulated by the equivalent linear method and the nonlinear method via DEEPSOIL program. Three types of soil column uncertainties such as shear wave velocity, modulus reduction, and damping ratio of soil layers as well as depth of underlying rock half-space (D bed) are considered herein. The mean amplification and standard deviation of natural logarithm of amplification factors are computed for a variety of analysis types. The results of the current study show that the computed mean and standard deviation of amplification factor in ln units by considering only V S uncertainty are in good agreement with the corresponding ones by considering V S and modulus reduction and damping ratio variabilities simultaneously for the studied site. Furthermore, it seems that the effect of bedrock depth in definition of spectral shapes of the Iranian seismic building code should be taken into account.

Keywords: Shiraz clay site; Site response analysis; Random vibration theory (RVT); General quadratic/hyperbolic model; Iranian seismic building code (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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