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Chapter 2.  Seismology and Earthquake Engineering

Chapters 1-2 - Notes - 6 slides per page

Chapters 1-2 - Notes - 4 slides per page

Chapters 1-2 - Notes - 1 slide per page

Acoustics and Vibration Animations

Geologic Time Scale (from: http://pas.ce.wsu.edu/CE524/geologic%20time%20scale.htm)

Chapter 3.  Strong Ground Motion

B1. Chapter 3 - Notes - 6 slides per page PDF

B1. Chapter 3 - Note - 4 Slides per page PDF

B1. Chapter 3 - Note - 3 Slides per page PDF

B1. Chapter 3 - Note - 2 Slides per page PDF

B1. Chapter 3 - Note - 1 Slides per page PDF

 

B2. Mathcad File - PDF Format 

B2. Matlab format - Zipped

 

B3. Mathcad File - PDF Format

 

B4. Chapter 3 - Gilroy 1 Earthquake Data - PDF

B4. Chapter 3 - Gilroy 2 Earthquake Data - PDF

 

B4a. Gilroy1 File - ASCII

B4b. Gilroy2 file - ASCII

 

B5. Chapter 3 - Notes - Part 4 - PDF Format


 

 

Chapter 3.  Continued - Attenuations

 

B5. Chapter 3 - Notes - Part 4 - PDF Format

Recent Attenuation Relationships

Atkinson Casey (2003)

Atkinson (2004)

Paper 3 - Paper 3 Erratum1, Erratum2, Erratum3

Paper 4 - Paper 4 Erratum

Paper 5 - Attenuation Paper - Tavakoli and Pezeshk

Atkinson Boore (2006)
Atkinson (2004)
Atkinson Silva (2000)
Silva (2002)
Atkinson Boore (1995)
NGA 
NGA Spreadsheet

Chapter 3.  Continued

B6. SMSIM response spectrum

B7. Chapter 3 - Earthquake Generation - Notes will given to you in class.

Boore Web Site http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/~boore

SMSIM Manual - PDF Format

Simulation of Ground Motion Using the
Stochastic Method

SMSIM Program 

Site Amplification Software

Boore Windowing

SMSIM Steps

Stress Drop Definition - By Chris Cramer

Performance Based Design

Normal Distribution

 

Chapter 4.  Seismic Hazard Analysis

C1.  Chapter 4 - Part 1 - PDF Format

C2. Chapter 4 - PSHA - PDF Format

Examples of PSHA

C3A. PSHA Example - A Simple Example

C3A2. PSHA Example - A simple Example

C3B. PSHA Example 4.5 of Text

C3C. Example 4.5 of text - Mathcad Format

C4, PSHA Example - PDF format from excel file

C5. Figure 4.5(a) of Example 4.5 of text

C6. Basic of Seismic Risk Analysis

C7. Recurrence Probability

Assessment 

USGS 1996 Open File - PDF format

USGS 2002 Open File - PDF format

USGS Report - Wheeler

USGS 1996 Open File - PDF format

USGS2007 Open File - Word format

USGS2007 Figures - Powerpoint

New Madrid Source Zones

 

 

USGS Fact Sheet

 

Stepp et al. (2001)

Join the following 

CEUS-Earthquake-Hazards -- Central and Eastern U.S. Earthquake Hazards Listserve

Archives

By Ahbrahamson (http://www.nabrahamson.com/ECI289/)

Approaches To Developing Design Ground Motions  

Source Characterization

Probability for Seismic Hazard Analysis

Aleatory Variability and Epistemic Uncertainty

Aleatory Vs. Epistemic

 
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 Ref_papers
2007018_Klugel_Comment.pdf
Bommer & Abrahamson 2006.pdf
Klugel 2007.pdf
j.1365-246X.2006.03178.pdf

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Chapter 6 - Dynamic Soil Properties

D1a. Soil Dynamic Properties

D1. CPT

D2. Downhole

D3. Seismic Refraction 

D4. Crosshole

D4a. Resonant Column

D5. Shear Wave Velocity from downhole

 

 

 

F1. SASW Inversion

Ground Motions in Mississippi Embayment

Drilling and Sampling Video

ASTM - Downhole.

 

Chapter 7 - Ground Response Analysis

G1. Chapter7 and 8  -
PDF (1 slide per page), PDF (4 slides per page).

G2. Site Response - Mathcad PDF

Shake91 File and Shake 91 input file

Shake91 User Manual

DEEPSOIL Presentation

Additional Reference: Non-linear models used for site response (Source: Dr. Adrian Rodriguez-Marek, http://pas.ce.wsu.edu/CE524/reading%20assignments.htm)

 

 

 

Code Procedures

 

H1. NEHRP 97, IBC2003, and Modified IBC2003 Notes 
(1 slide per page) ;  (6 slides per page)

 

H2. NEHRP 2003 Site Specific Requirements

UGSG Hazard Mapping site

 

Liquefaction

 

I1. Liquefaction Notes - PDF Format

4 slides per page

I2. Spreadsheet Liquefaction - SPT

I3. Spreadsheet Liquefaction - Vs

I4. Liquefaction - Youd-Idriss

 

I5. Influence of Soil Softening and Liquefaction on Response Spectra
 

I7. sp117.pdf
 

I8li_manu.pdf.

Memphis LPI Paper

 

ASTM 2487 - Set 1
ASTM 2487 - Set 2
See Figure 9.48 of Text (PDF Version)

LIQUEFACTION RESISTANCE OF SOILS: SUMMARY REPORT FROM THE 1996 NCEER AND 1998 NCEER/NSF WORKSHOPS ON EVALUATION OF LIQUEFACTION RESISTANCE OF SOILS" By T. L. Youd, I. M. Idriss, Ronald D. et al. 

Paper 2

 

 

Paper by Dr.  Chris Cramer of USGS.

 

 

 


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