Effect of Randomness of Parameters on Amplification of Ground Motion in Saturated Sedimentary Valley
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Published:2023-01-14
Issue:2
Volume:13
Page:1147
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ISSN:2076-3417
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Container-title:Applied Sciences
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Applied Sciences
Author:
He YingORCID,
Liu Xu,
Liu Zhongxian,
Chen Xueling,
Yin Benchi
Abstract
Based on Biot’s theory and the indirect boundary element method (IBEM), the Monte Carlo method is utilized to generate random samples to calculate the displacement response of a saturated sedimentary valley under SV wave incidence. The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of randomness of porosity, permeability coefficient, and geometric shape on the seismic amplification effect of saturated complex sites. It is shown that the change of media porosity in the saturated site with defined boundary has relatively little influence on the ground motion, and the influence of the permeability coefficient is slightly larger. While in the site with a random boundary, the influence of both the porosity and permeability coefficient are significant, which cannot be ignored. The conclusion plays an important guiding role in earthquake disaster prevention and mitigation, such as seismic risk analysis and earthquake microzonation in saturated sedimentary valleys.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Scientific Research Fund of the Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Administration
Subject
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes,Computer Science Applications,Process Chemistry and Technology,General Engineering,Instrumentation,General Materials Science
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