Nonlinear seismic responses of the powerhouse of a hydropower station under near-fault plane P-wave oblique incidence

2019 ◽  
Vol 199 ◽  
pp. 109613 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiqiang Song ◽  
Fei Wang ◽  
Yanlong Li ◽  
Yunhe Liu
Keyword(s):  
Oblique Incidence ◽  
Fault Plane ◽  
P Wave ◽  
Hydropower Station ◽  
Seismic Responses ◽  
Near Fault ◽  
Plane P Wave

A simplified iterative approach for testing the pulse derailment of light rail vehicles across a viaduct to near-fault earthquake scenarios

2021 ◽  
pp. 095440972098741
Author(s):  
Ling-Kun Chen ◽  
Peng Liu ◽  
Li-Ming Zhu ◽  
Jing-Bo Ding ◽  
Yu-Lin Feng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ground Motions ◽  
Simulation Software ◽  
Light Rail ◽  
Rail Transit ◽  
Light Rail Transit ◽  
Seismic Responses ◽  
Near Fault ◽  
Rail Vehicle ◽  
Pulse Type ◽  
The Impact

Near-fault (NF) earthquakes cause severe bridge damage, particularly urban bridges subjected to light rail transit (LRT), which could affect the safety of the light rail transit vehicle (“light rail vehicle” or “LRV” for short). Now when a variety of studies on the fault fracture effect on the working protection of LRVs are available for the study of cars subjected to far-reaching soil motion (FFGMs), further examination is appropriate. For the first time, this paper introduced the LRV derailment mechanism caused by pulse-type near-fault ground motions (NFGMs), suggesting the concept of pulse derailment. The effects of near-fault ground motions (NFGMs) are included in an available numerical process developed for the LRV analysis of the VBI system. A simplified iterative algorithm is proposed to assess the stability and nonlinear seismic response of an LRV-reinforced concrete (RC) viaduct (LRVBRCV) system to a long-period NFGMs using the dynamic substructure method (DSM). Furthermore, a computer simulation software was developed to compute the nonlinear seismic responses of the VBI system to pulse-type NFGMs, non-pulse-type NFGMs, and FFGMs named Dynamic Interaction Analysis for Light-Rail-Vehicle Bridge System (DIALRVBS). The nonlinear bridge seismic reaction determines the impact of pulses on lateral peak earth acceleration (Ap) and lateral peak land (Vp) ratios. The analysis results quantify the effects of pulse-type NFGMs seismic responses on the LRV operations' safety. In contrast with the pulse-type non-pulse NFGMs and FFGMs, this article's research shows that pulse-type NFGM derail trains primarily via the transverse velocity pulse effect. Hence, this study's results and the proposed method can improve the LRT bridges' seismic designs.

Rise times of attenuated seismic pulses detected in both empty and fluid‐filled cylindrical boreholes

Geophysics ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 398-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. P. Blair
Keyword(s):  
Stress Wave ◽  
Particle Motion ◽  
P Wave ◽  
Wave Incident ◽  
Stress Wave Propagation ◽  
Linear Phase ◽  
Phase Filter ◽  
Mathematical Expressions ◽  
Plane P Wave ◽  
Theory And Experiment

Fourier‐Bessel theory is used to derive filters representing the influence of both empty and fluid‐filled cylindrical boreholes on particle motion induced in rock by a plane P-wave incident perpendicular to the borehole axis. For wavelengths greater than 10 times the borehole circumference, the effect of the borehole on particle motions is shown to be negligible; thus the results have little relevance for the long wavelengths commonly encountered in earthquake seismology. The results are, however, relevant to the study of stress wave propagation at ultrasonic frequencies in rock masses. For small wavelengths (αa > 3.0) the filter representing particle motion on the wave incident site of an empty borehole reduces to a linear phase filter which increases all amplitudes by a factor of 2 while the filter representing fluid stress at the center of a fluid‐filled borehole may be reduced to simple mathematical expressions. Experimental results were obtained for the interaction of a stress wave with either accelerometers mounted in an empty borehole or a hydrophone located centrally in a fluid‐filled borehole. Both theory and experiment show a similar distortion in the rise time of the pulse traveling past the borehole.

Control of rupture by fault geometry during the 1966 parkfield earthquake

1981 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan G. Lindh ◽  
David M. Boore
Keyword(s):  
Main Shock ◽  
Fault Plane ◽  
San Andreas Fault ◽  
Strong Motion ◽  
P Wave ◽  
Fault Geometry ◽  
Dynamic Rupture ◽  
San Andreas ◽  
Hill Station ◽  
Parkfield Earthquake

abstract A reanalysis of the available data for the 1966 Parkfield, California, earthquake (ML=512) suggests that although the ground breakage and aftershocks extended about 40 km along the San Andreas Fault, the initial dynamic rupture was only 20 to 25 km in length. The foreshocks and the point of initiation of the main event locate at a small bend in the mapped trace of the fault. Detailed analysis of the P-wave first motions from these events at the Gold Hill station, 20 km southeast, indicates that the bend in the fault extends to depth and apparently represents a physical discontinuity on the fault plane. Other evidence suggests that this discontinuity plays an important part in the recurrence of similar magnitude 5 to 6 earthquakes at Parkfield. Analysis of the strong-motion records suggests that the rupture stopped at another discontinuity in the fault plane, an en-echelon offset near Gold Hill that lies at the boundary on the San Andreas Fault between the zone of aseismic slip and the locked zone on which the great 1857 earthquake occurred. Foreshocks to the 1857 earthquake occurred in this area (Sieh, 1978), and the epicenter of the main shock may have coincided with the offset zone. If it did, a detailed study of the geological and geophysical character of the region might be rewarding in terms of understanding how and why great earthquakes initiate where they do.

Aftershocks of the February 21, 1973 Point Mugu, California earthquake

1976 ◽  
Vol 66 (6) ◽  
pp. 1931-1952
Author(s):  
Donald J. Stierman ◽  
William L. Ellsworth
Keyword(s):  
Fault Zone ◽  
Main Shock ◽  
Fault Plane ◽  
Body Wave ◽  
P Wave ◽  
Fault System ◽  
Wave Radiation ◽  
Fault Plane Solutions ◽  
Complex Deformation ◽  
Transverse Ranges

abstract The ML 6.0 Point Mugu, California earthquake of February 21, 1973 and its aftershocks occurred within the complex fault system that bounds the southern front of the Transverse Ranges province of southern California. P-wave fault plane solutions for 51 events include reverse, strike slip and normal faulting mechanisms, indicating complex deformation within the 10-km broad fault zone. Hypocenters of 141 aftershocks fail to delineate any single fault plane clearly associated with the main shock rupture. Most aftershocks cluster in a region 5 km in diameter centered 5 km from the main shock hypocenter and well beyond the extent of fault rupture estimated from analysis of body-wave radiation. Strain release within the imbricate fault zone was controlled by slip on preexisting planes of weakness under the influence of a NE-SW compressive stress.

Earthquake/earth tide correlation and other features of the Susanville, California, earthquake sequence of June-July 1976

1980 ◽  
Vol 70 (5) ◽  
pp. 1583-1593
Author(s):  
Amy S. Mohler
Keyword(s):  
Shear Stress ◽  
Compressive Stress ◽  
Sierra Nevada ◽  
Fault Plane ◽  
Earth Tide ◽  
P Wave ◽  
First Motion ◽  
Entire Sequence ◽  
June July ◽  
Earthquake Sequences

abstract An earthquake of magnitude ML 4.5 occurred on June 20, 1976 in an area of complex faulting in northeastern California, near the intersection of the Sierra Nevada, Modoc Plateau, Cascade Range, and Basin and Range geological provinces. P-wave first motion plots for larger aftershocks of this earthquake indicate maximum and minimum compressive stress, respectively, in north-south and east-west directions, with predominantly strike-slip motion. Focal depths for these events ranged from 7 to 15 km, consistent with other earthquake sequences in the region. Origin times of more than 4,700 aftershocks for the period between June 20 and July 1 are compared with the phase of solid-earth tidal components appropriate for normal and shear stress on northeast- and northwest-trending fault planes. Based on this comparison, approximately 20 per cent more earthquakes occurred at times when the normal compressive stress on the fault plane was decreasing, and the shear stress was increasing in the sense of slip on the fault plane. This correlation may be explained by two large bursts of aftershocks that occurred at times when tidal stresses were favorable for motion on the fault plane, rather than continuous triggering of small events during the entire sequence.

The Peru-Bolivia border earthquake of August 15, 1963

1970 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 639-646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Umesh Chandra
Keyword(s):  
Travel Time ◽  
Fault Plane ◽  
P Wave ◽  
Focal Mechanism Solution ◽  
Event Analysis ◽  
Rupture Propagation ◽  
Fault Propagation ◽  
Amplitude Data ◽  
First Motion ◽  
Deep Focus

abstract The seismograms of the deep focus Peru-Bolivia border earthquake of August 15, 1963 reveal the presence of a number of conspicuous phases occurring within 15 seconds of the first P onset. These phases cannot be explained on the basis of known travel-time curves. Accordingly, the earthquake is interpreted to have occurred in a series of jerks during the course of fault propagation, or in other words it is composed of multiple events. Only one of these events, following the first event, at which the amplitude of the recorded motion becomes suddenly very large, has been located in this study. The focal mechanism solution of this earthquake has been determined from the P wave first motion and amplitude data. Consideration of the direction of rupture propagation determined from the multiple event analysis makes it possible to identify the fault plane in the mechanism solution. The parameters of the fault plane, length and speed of rupture between the two events have been determined.

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