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Article Dans Une Revue Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering Année : 2005

Seismic wave amplification: Basin geometry vs soil layering.

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The main purpose of the paper is to analyze seismic site effects in alluvial basins and to discuss the influence of the knowledge of the local geology on site amplification simulations. Wave amplification is due to a combined effect of impedance ratio between soil layers and surface wave propagation due to the limited extent of the basin. In this paper, we investigate the influence of the complexity of the soil layering (simplified or detailed layering) on site effects in both time and frequency domain. The analysis is performed by the Boundary Element Method. The European test site of Volvi (Greece) is considered and 2D amplification in the basin is investigated for various soil models. Seismic signals are computed in time domain for synthetic Ricker signals as well as actual measurements. They are analyzed in terms of amplification level as well as time duration lengthening (basin effects) for both SH and SV waves. These results show that the geometry of the basin has a very strong influence on seismic wave amplification in terms of both amplification level and time duration lengthening. The combined influence of geometry/layering of alluvial basins seems to be very important for the analysis of 2D (3D) site effects but a simplified analysis could sometimes be sufficient. In the case of Volvi European test site, this influence leads to (measured and computed) 2D amplification ratios far above 1D estimations from horizontal layering descriptions.
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hal-00107884 , version 1 (23-03-2009)

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Jean François Semblat, A. Kham, E. Parara, Pierre-Yves Bard, K. Pitilakis, et al.. Seismic wave amplification: Basin geometry vs soil layering.. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2005, 25 (7-10) Special Iss., pp.529-538. ⟨10.1016/j.soildyn.2004.11.003⟩. ⟨hal-00107884⟩
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