scholarly journals Behavior of Special Hospital Equipments as Rigid Block with Mass Eccentricity Subjected to Horizontal Component of Ground Motion

2017 ◽  
Vol 199 ◽  
pp. 753-758
Author(s):  
Kaveh Nezamisavojbolaghi ◽  
Mahmood Hosseini
2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
BrianS-J. Chiou ◽  
Robert R. Youngs

We present a model for estimating horizontal ground motion amplitudes caused by shallow crustal earthquakes occurring in active tectonic environments. The model provides predictive relationships for the orientation-independent average horizontal component of ground motions. Relationships are provided for peak acceleration, peak velocity, and 5-percent damped pseudo-spectral acceleration for spectral periods of 0.01 to 10 seconds. The model represents an update of the relationships developed by Sadigh et. al. (1997) and incorporates improved magnitude and distance scaling forms as well as hanging-wall effects. Site effects are represented by smooth functions of average shear wave velocity of the upper 30 m ( VS30) and sediment depth. The new model predicts median ground motion that is similar to Sadigh et. al. (1997) at short spectral period, but lower ground motions at longer periods. The new model produces slightly lower ground motions in the distance range of 10 to 50 km and larger ground motions at larger distances. The aleatory variability in ground motion amplitude was found to depend upon earthquake magnitude and on the degree of nonlinear soil response, For large magnitude earthquakes, the aleatory variability is larger than found by Sadigh et. al. (1997).


1998 ◽  
Vol 124 (7) ◽  
pp. 713-717 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Pompei ◽  
A. Scalia ◽  
M. A. Sumbatyan

2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth W. Campbell ◽  
Yousef Bozorgnia

We present a new empirical ground motion model for PGA, PGV, PGD and 5% damped linear elastic response spectra for periods ranging from 0.01–10 s. The model was developed as part of the PEER Next Generation Attenuation (NGA) project. We used a subset of the PEER NGA database for which we excluded recordings and earthquakes that were believed to be inappropriate for estimating free-field ground motions from shallow earthquake mainshocks in active tectonic regimes. We developed relations for both the median and standard deviation of the geometric mean horizontal component of ground motion that we consider to be valid for magnitudes ranging from 4.0 up to 7.5–8.5 (depending on fault mechanism) and distances ranging from 0–200 km. The model explicitly includes the effects of magnitude saturation, magnitude-dependent attenuation, style of faulting, rupture depth, hanging-wall geometry, linear and nonlinear site response, 3-D basin response, and inter-event and intra-event variability. Soil nonlinearity causes the intra-event standard deviation to depend on the amplitude of PGA on reference rock rather than on magnitude, which leads to a decrease in aleatory uncertainty at high levels of ground shaking for sites located on soil.


2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 635-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth W. Campbell ◽  
Yousef Bozorgnia

Cumulative absolute velocity (CAV), defined as the integral of the absolute acceleration time series, has been used as an index to indicate the possible onset of structural damage to nuclear power plant facilities and liquefaction of saturated soils. However, there are very few available ground motion prediction equations for this intensity measure. In this study, we developed a new empirical prediction equation for the horizontal component of CAV using the strong motion database and functional forms that were used to develop similar prediction equations for peak response parameters as part of the PEER Next Generation Attenuation (NGA) Project. We consider this relationship to be valid for magnitudes ranging from 5.0 up to 7.5–8.5 (depending on fault mechanism) and distances ranging from 0–200 km. We found the interevent, intra-event, and intracomponent standard deviations from this relationship to be smaller than any intensity measure we have investigated thus far.


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