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- Title
Influence of Soil Modeling Uncertainties on Site Response.
- Authors
Barani, Simone; De Ferrari, Roberto; Ferretti, Gabriele
- Abstract
The scope of this work is to examine the influence of the uncertainty in soil modeling on numerical ground response estimates through a comprehensive sensitivity analysis. This allows identification of those parameters with the largest effect on both soil amplification (quantified here by a frequency-independent factor, Fa) and fundamental frequency, f 0. Although extensively examined in previous articles, the effect of the input motion is also analyzed. The uncertainty affecting the shear wave velocity (VS) profile was found to be the factor contributing most to the uncertainty of both Fa and f 0. The soil thickness was also found to play a key role, particularly in those cases where bedrock depth is unknown or largely uncertain. Although of secondary importance compared to the effect of VS on Fa and f 0, the influence of the input motion cannot be neglected; rather it becomes predominant with regard to the uncertainty affecting frequency-dependent shaking parameters.
- Publication
Earthquake Spectra, 2013, Vol 29, Issue 3, p705
- ISSN
8755-2930
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1193/1.4000159