Author:
Moratto L.,Vuan A.,Saraò A.,Slejko D.,Papazachos C.,Caputo R.,Civile D.,Volpi V.,Ceramicola S.,Chatzipetros A.,Daja S.,Fabris P.,Garcia-Pelaez J.,Geletti R.,Karvelis P.,Pavlides S.,Rapti D.,Rebez A.,Rossi G.,Sandron D.,Santulin M.,Sboras S.,Tamaro A.,Zecchin M.,Zgur F.,Zuliani D.
Abstract
AbstractTo ensure environmental and public safety, critical facilities require rigorous seismic hazard analysis to define seismic input for their design. We consider the case of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), which is a pipeline that transports natural gas from the Caspian Sea to southern Italy, crossing active faults and areas characterized by high seismicity levels. For this pipeline, we develop a Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment (PSHA) for the broader area, and, for the selected critical sites, we perform deterministic seismic hazard assessment (DSHA), by calculating shaking scenarios that account for the physics of the source, propagation, and site effects. This paper presents a DSHA for a compressor station located at Fier, along the Albanian coastal region. Considering the location of the most hazardous faults in the study site, revealed by the PSHA disaggregation, we model the ground motion for two different scenarios to simulate the worst-case scenario for this compressor station. We compute broadband waveforms for receivers on soft soils by applying specific transfer functions estimated from the available geotechnical data for the Fier area. The simulations reproduce the variability observed in the ground motion recorded in the near-earthquake source. The vertical ground motion is strong for receivers placed above the rupture areas and should not be ignored in seismic designs; furthermore, our vertical simulations reproduce the displacement and the static offset of the ground motion highlighted in recent studies. This observation confirms the importance of the DSHA analysis in defining the expected pipeline damage functions and permanent soil deformations.
Funder
Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Geophysics,Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology,Building and Construction,Civil and Structural Engineering
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