Result Comparison of Spectral Matching Between <i>Seismomatch</i> and <i>Specmatch </i>Computer Program

Abstract

The earthquake ground motion, or acceleration time history, caused by an earthquake event, is an earthquake acceleration wave that can be utilized as a basis to design earthquake-resistant civil engineering buildings. The earthquake acceleration time history is needed as a basis to determine the earthquake loading for the building structure design. A time history can be developed from recorded data using spectral matching software. In this process, the response spectra of the recorded time history are matched to a specific target spectrum. The target spectrum is developed based on the Indonesian National Standard known as SNI 2012 (SNI code). The response spectra derived from this standard are referred to as the design response spectrum. These response spectra adopted by the SNI code are based on the ASCE code from the US. Two spectral matching software programs, namely Seismomatch and Specmatch, are employed for this purpose. In this study, both of software programs are utilized to match the response spectra of a time history to a predefined response spectrum. The results of the matching process indicate that Seismomatch does not produce a satisfactory match between the response spectra of the time history and the target spectrum, whereas Specmatch provides a matching result where the response spectra of the time history nearly perfectly align with the target spectrum.