基于NGA强震数据的地震动显著持时研究

持时对工程场地或构筑物的非线性地震响应存在显著影响,但目前有关地震动持时的研究相对振幅与频谱的研究较少。本文基于太平洋地震工程中心的NGA-East强震数据库和NGA-West2强震数据库的地震动记录,对5%～95%显著持时进行了研究。分析了地震动两分量时程的显著持时差异及差异产生的原因,进而探讨了显著持时定义自身的缺陷。借助考虑随机效应的多参数非线性回归给出了NGA-East和NGA-West2数据的5%～95%显著持时的预测公式,可在适用的震级和断层距范围内为估计构造稳定区和构造活跃区的显著持时提供参考。     

Dependence of correlations between spectral accelerations at multiple periods on magnitude and distance

In this paper, the dependence of correlations between spectral accelerations at multiple periods on magnitude (M) and distance (R) has been investigated. For this purpose, a relatively large dataset of ground motion records (GMRs), containing 1551 records with a wide range of seismic characteristics, was selected. It is shown that the difference in the correlation coefficient is statistically meaningful when the general GMR dataset is divided into two subsets based on an arbitrary M or R. The observed difference is more meaningful in the case of magnitude when compared with distance. The general dataset of GMRs was then divided into four separate subsets based on optimum values of M and R, so that the four obtained subsets were given the greatest dissimilarity in terms of the correlation coefficients. The correlation coefficients between spectral accelerations at multiple periods were calculated in the case of the four subsets and compared with the available correlations in the literature. The conditional mean spectrum was also calculated by means of the conventional correlation coefficients, as well as by using the proposed M and R dependent correlation coefficients. The results show that, despite the commonly available findings in the literature, this dependence is significant and should not be neglected in the conditional spectra calculation process. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A simple ground‐motion prediction model for cumulative absolute velocity and model validation

Cumulative absolute velocity (CAV) is an important ground motion intensity measure used in seismic hazard analysis. Based on the Next Generation Attenuation strong motion database, a simple ground‐motion prediction equation is proposed for the geometric mean of as‐recorded horizontal components of CAVs using mixed regression analysis. The proposed model employs only four parameters and has a simple functional form. Validation tests are conducted to compare the proposed model with the recently developed Campbell–Bozorgnia (CB10) model using subsets of the strong motion database, as well as several recent earthquakes that are not used in developing the model. It is found that the predictive capability of the proposed model is comparable with the CB10 model, which employs a complex functional form and more parameters. The study also corroborates previous findings that CAV has higher predictability than other intensity measures such as the peak ground acceleration. The high predictability of CAV warrants the use of the proposed simple model as an alternative in seismic hazard analysis. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Empirical correlation of PGA,spectral accelerations and spectrum intensities from active shallow crustal earthquakes

Empirical correlation equations between peak ground acceleration, spectral acceleration, spectrum intensity, and acceleration spectrum intensity are developed. The correlation equations are developed for shallow crustal earthquakes using the Next Generation Attenuation (NGA) ground motion database, and four of the NGA ground motion prediction equations (GMPEs). A particularly novel aspect of the present study is the explicit consideration of epistemic uncertainty in the correlation equations due to both the adopted ground motion database and GMPEs. The resulting correlation equations enable the joint consideration of these four ground motion intensity measures in ground motion selection using frameworks such as the generalized conditional intensity measure approach. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Use of Neural network to predict the peak ground accelerations and pseudo spectral accelerations for Mexican Inslab and Interplate Earthquakes

The use of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) is explored to predict peak ground accelerations (PGA) and pseudospectral acceleration (SA) for Mexican inslab and interplate earthquakes. A total of 277 and 418 seismic records with two horizontal components for inslab and interplate earthquakes, respectively, are used to train the ANN models by using an ANN with a feed-forward architecture with a back-propagation learning algorithm. Both ANN with single and two hidden layers are considered. For comparison purposes, the PGA and SA values predicted by the trained ANN models are compared with those estimated with attenuation relations or ground motion prediction equations (GMPEs). The comparison indicates that the predicted PGA and SA values by the trained ANN models, in general, follow the trends predicted by the GMPEs. However, an extensive verification of the trained models must be conducted before they can be used for seismic hazard and risk analysis since, on occasion, the PGA and SA values predicted by the trained ANN models depart from the behaviour observed from the actual records.     

Empirical evaluation of peak ground velocity and displacement as a function of elastic spectral ordinates for design

In the framework of the revision of Part 1 of Eurocode 8, this study aims at developing new empirical correlations to compute peak values of ground velocity (PGV) and displacement (PGD) as a function of elastic spectral ordinates for design. At variance with the expressions for PGV and PGD currently adopted in the Eurocode 8, based solely on the peak ground acceleration (PGA), in this paper reference is made to spectral ordinates of the short and intermediate period range, namely S_s, which is the constant acceleration spectral ordinate, and S₁, which is the spectral ordinate at 1 s. On the one hand, a relationship between PGV and the product (S_s?S₁) was found based on the regression analysis on a high‐quality strong‐motion dataset. On the other hand, the PGD was estimated by extrapolating to long periods the constant displacement branch of the elastic response spectrum, introducing a correlation between the corner period T_D and S₁. For this purpose, results of a long period probabilistic seismic hazard assessment study for Italy, encompassing low to high seismicity areas, were considered. Furthermore, verification of the proposed relationship against strong‐motion records was carried out, and differences justified in terms of the concept of uniform hazard spectrum.     

Estimation of seismic stress drop from the peak velocity of ground motion

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Empirical equations for the prediction of PGA and pseudo spectral accelerations using Iranian strong-motion data

A recently compiled, comprehensive, and good-quality strong-motion database of the Iranian earthquakes has been used to develop local empirical equations for the prediction of peak ground acceleration (PGA) and 5%-damped pseudo-spectral accelerations (PSA) up to 4.0 s. The equations account for style of faulting and four site classes and use the horizontal distance from the surface projection of the rupture plane as a distance measure. The model predicts the geometric mean of horizontal components and the vertical-to-horizontal ratio. A total of 1551 free-field acceleration time histories recorded at distances of up to 200 km from 200 shallow earthquakes (depth < 30 km) with moment magnitudes ranging from M_w 4.0 to 7.3 are used to perform regression analysis using the random effects algorithm of Abrahamson and Youngs (Bull Seism Soc Am 82:505–510, 1992), which considers between-events as well as within-events errors. Due to the limited data used in the development of previous Iranian ground motion prediction equations (GMPEs) and strong trade-offs between different terms of GMPEs, it is likely that the previously determined models might have less precision on their coefficients in comparison to the current study. The richer database of the current study allows improving on prior works by considering additional variables that could not previously be adequately constrained. Here, a functional form used by Boore and Atkinson (Earthquake Spect 24:99–138, 2008) and Bindi et al. (Bull Seism Soc Am 9:1899–1920, 2011) has been adopted that allows accounting for the saturation of ground motions at close distances. A regression has been also performed for the V/H in order to retrieve vertical components by scaling horizontal spectra. In order to take into account epistemic uncertainty, the new model can be used along with other appropriate GMPEs through a logic tree framework for seismic hazard assessment in Iran and Middle East region.     

A stochastic ground motion model with separable temporal and spectral nonstationarities

A fully nonstationary stochastic model for strong earthquake ground motion is developed. The model employs filtering of a discretized white‐noise process. Nonstationarity is achieved by modulating the intensity and varying the filter properties in time. The formulation has the important advantage of separating the temporal and spectral nonstationary characteristics of the process, thereby allowing flexibility and ease in modeling and parameter estimation. The model is fitted to target ground motions by matching a set of statistical characteristics, including the mean‐square intensity, the cumulative mean number of zero‐level up‐crossings and a measure of the bandwidth, all expressed as functions of time. Post‐processing by a second filter assures zero residual velocity and displacement, and improves the match to response spectral ordinates for long periods. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Artificial ground motion compatible with specified peak velocity and target spectrum

In this paper, a method, which synthesizes the artificial ground motion compatible with the specified peak velocity as well as the target acceleration response spectrum, was proposed. In this method, firstly, an initial acceleration time history α8^（0） （t）, which satisfies the prescribed peak ground acceleration, the target spectral acceleration ST（ω, ζ）,and the specified intensity envelope, is generated by the traditional method that generates the requency domain; secondly,α8^（0） （t）is further modulated by superimposing narrow-band time histories upon it in the time domain to make its peak velocity, approach the target peak ground velocity, and at the same time to improve its fitting precision to the target spectrum. Numerical examples show that this algorithm boasts high calculation precisions.     

A method to extract successive velocity pulses governing structural response from long-period ground motion

A series of relatively long-period velocity pulses appearing in the later part of ground motion, which is the characterization of far-source long-period ground motions in basin (“long-period ground motion” for short), is mainly influenced by focal mechanism, basin effect, and dispersion. It was supposed that the successive low-frequency velocity pulses in long-period ground motion caused the resonance of long-period structures in basin, which are of special concern to designers of super high-rise buildings. The authors proposed a wavelet-based successive frequency-dependent pulse extraction (WSFPE) method to identify and extract these pulses with dominant period of interest from long-period ground motions. The pulses extracted by using two frequently used methods (zero-crossing analysis, empirical mode decomposition) were compared to the pulses extracted by using WSFPE. The results demonstrate that the WSFPE provides higher resolution in time–frequency domain than the other two methods do. The velocity pulses extracted by using WSFPE are responsible for the resonance and maximum response of structure subjected to long-period ground motions. WSFPE can be used to make a better understanding of long-period ground motions and to promote the formation of long-period ground motion model which will help the seismic design of long-period structures built in sedimentary basin.     

地动噪声功率谱及动态范围的一致性分析

在和田地震台阵中心子台安放9台CMG-40T型短周期地震计,采用EDAS-24IP数据采集器进行数据采集。对同一时段观测数据的地动噪声功率谱、动态范围等参数进行测定,并对测定结果进行对比,在使用者的角度分析该类型地震计的一致性。     

四川及邻区不同风险水平下地震动峰值加速度的比值特征

基于四川及邻区8181个控制点的地震危险性分析结果,统计得出了不同风险水平下中硬场地地震动峰值加速度的比值特征.文中重点分析了大震与中震地震作用的比值(K2值)的统计特征和空间分布特征,初步分析了影响K2值的因素.本文研究结果不仅可为抗倒塌地震区划图编图原则和编图方法的确定提供重要依据,还可为不同行业、不同工程的抗震设计和验算提供参考.     

从集集地震看建筑物震害与地震动参数的关系

本文根据9．21台湾集集大地震中南投县、台中县、台北县和苗栗县的建筑物震害调查资料确定出这4个主要受害地区的平均震害指数,然后义计算出这4个地区的地震动峰值加速度、峰值速度、峰值谱加速度、峰值谱速度、峰值谱位移的平均值。将这些均值分别与平均震害指数进行基于最小二乘法的线性回归,发现峰值速度和震害指数有非常好的相关性,相关系数接近1．0,而峰值加速度与震害指数相关性只有0．8,这说明地震动峰值速度能够体现地震动对脆性结构的破坏势,与以往将不同次地震的记录和资料混淆在一起研究而获得峰值加速度与震害有很好相关性形成了对比。     

近断层地震动速度、位移峰值衰减规律的研究

在全球范围内选取6．0≤Mw≤7．6、震源深度H≤20km且断层距df≤40km的地震动速度和位移峰值数据．进行分组统计分析,确定了PGV和PGD的近断层研究区域分别为20km和15km。认为两水平分量为2条独立数据,在各自研究区域分别得到由366条PGV和265条PGD数据组成的数据库;其中水平方向分为硬土和软土2类场地,竖向只考虑土层场地．利用作者前文已提出的近断层地震动衰减模型和最小二乘法进行数据拟合分析．得到PGV和PGD随断层距和震源深度变化的衰减曲面,分析了水平、竖向以及竖向与水平比值的衰减规律。     

地震动强度非平稳特性参数与结构响应之间的近似定量关系分析

本文在对实际地震加速度记录统计分析的基础上,给出了能够合理描述地震动强度非平稳特性的参数及其取值范围;然后引入实验设计方法,建立了适合于地震动强度非平稳特性参数分析的实验设计算法,用来分析地震动强度非平稳特性参数的变化对结构响应的影响;最后通过与近似技术相结合,建立了地震动强度非平稳特性参数与结构响应之间的近似定量关系模型.结果表明,本文提出的实验设计方法适合于对地震动强度非平稳特性参数进行分析,该方法在有效地减小计算量的同时,获得了结构响应与参数变化之间的对应关系.基于实验设计方法进行的特性参数方差分析结果表明:地震动的稳态持时对结构地震响应的影响比较显著;对于周期较小的结构,特性参数之间的交互作用对结构地震响应的影响显著,但当周期大于1 s时,则不显著.本文建立的近似定量关系模型能够较好地反映不同特性参数、不同周期结构动力响应之间的联系,为工程实践中基于结构特性合理设置地震动特性参数、合成或挑选地震加速度时程提供理论依据.      

A vector‐valued ground motion intensity measure consisting of spectral acceleration and epsilon

The ‘strength’ of an earthquake ground motion is often quantified by an Intensity Measure (IM), such as peak ground acceleration or spectral acceleration at a given period. This IM is used to predict the response of a structure. In this paper an intensity measure consisting of two parameters, spectral acceleration and epsilon, is considered. The IM is termed a vector‐valued IM, as opposed to the single parameter, or scalar, IMs that are traditionally used. Epsilon (defined as a measure of the difference between the spectral acceleration of a record and the mean of a ground motion prediction equation at the given period) is found to have significant ability to predict structural response. It is shown that epsilon is an indicator of spectral shape, explaining why it is related to structural response. By incorporating this vector‐valued IM with a vector‐valued ground motion hazard, we can predict the mean annual frequency of exceeding a given value of maximum interstory drift ratio, or other such response measure. It is shown that neglecting the effect of epsilon when computing this drift hazard curve leads to conservative estimates of the response of the structure. These observations should perhaps affect record selection in the future. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

超随机特性对地震动谱特性和时间历程的影响

本文从单个地震动样本的角度分析了超随机部分对地震动波形的影响,认为自相关函数噪声部分或功率谱的随机波动部分对地震动波形的影响不大,对地震动的波形起主要控制作用的是地震动的相位谱或相位差谱,而自相关函数的噪声部分（或功率谱的随机波动成分）只对地震动波形起一定程度的调整作用。文中基于平稳随机过程的理论,用蒙特卡罗方法分析了自相关函数噪声项对人工合成地震动振幅和反应谱的影响：由于自相关函数的随机噪声项对地震动总功率或平方和的贡献为零,因此随机噪声项对合成地震动幅值的影响不大,但是由于自相关函数随机噪声项明显改变了地震动功率谱的形状和分布特征,使其出现了明显的波动,也在一定程度上提高了平均反应谱的峰值,从而对平均反应谱也产生一些影响。考虑地震动自相关函数中的随机噪声部分有助于更真实地模拟和反映地震动的真实特性。     

地震地面运动的局部谱密度描述及其估计方法

在介绍地震动描述沿革的基础上，分析了使用时变谱密度，即局部谱密度来刻画具有时频非平稳特性的地震动的必要性。从理论上详细比较了小波变换与其它几种局部谱密度估计方法，指出利用小波变换来估计局部谱密度比其它方法精度更高，速度更快，使得方便高效地将局部谱密度应用在地震工程和结构抗震的诸多领域成为可能。