doi:10.3850/978-981-08-7619-7_P014


Generation of Artificial Earthquake Accelerograms Compatible with Mean and Mean ± Standard Deviation Response Spectra


Pierfrancesco Cacciola1 and Irmela Zentner2,3

1School of Environment and Technology, University of Brighton, Cockcroft Building, Lewes Road, BN24GJ Brighton, UK.

p.cacciola@brighton.ac.uk

2Lamsid, UMR EDF-CNRS, Clamart, France

3EDF R&D, Structural Mechanics and Acoustics Department, Clamart, France.

irmela.zentner@edf.fr

ABSTRACT

The sustained dissemination of database of recorded accelerograms along with the increasing number of strong-motion networks installed worldwide revealed that the current methodologies for simulating artificial earthquakes possess the drawback that the simulated time-histories do not manifest the variability observed for natural accelerograms. As a consequence, the dispersion of resulting structural response analysis can be underestimated. In order to take into account the natural variability of earthquakes, a methodology for simulating artificial earthquake accelerograms matching mean and mean ± standard deviation response spectra is proposed in this paper. This dispersion can be determined from attenuation relationships or evaluated from selected accelerograms of a strong-motion database. The procedure requires the definition of an evolutionary response-spectrum-compatible power spectral density function with random parameters. The simulated ground motion time-histories will manifest variability so that one observed in natural records.

Keywords: Ground motion, Variability, Response spectra, Simulation.



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