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The Organizing Committee was composed by:Francesco Benedettini, Dante Galeota, Vincenzo Gattulli, Antonio Rovelli,Antonello Salvatori, Marco Tallini, Gianfranco Totani, Gianfranco Valente.
The papers presented in this Proceedings were selected by the Scientific Committee:Dario Albarello, Arrigo Caserta, Alberto Delladio, Gino D’Ovidio, Aladino Govoni, GiulianoMilana, Fabrizio Marra, Marco Mucciarelli.
The Workshop received supports by:University of l’Aquila and its Dipartimento di Ingegneria delle Strutture Acque e Terreno(DISAT) , Società Roma Metropolitane s.r.l., Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica (INGV), Agenzianazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (ENEA).
Assistance for international relationships:Aki Takizawa
The picture in the frontal covering represents: the Church of “Santa Maria” in Paganica(L’Aquila) damaged by the carthquake on 6 April 2009. It was extracted from the enclo-sed paper by:Prof. Mauro Dolce.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE WORKSHOP DISS_10,L’AQUILA, 19 MARCH 2010
THE DYNAMICINTERACTION OF SOIL
AND STRUCTURE
Edited byGino D’Ovidio
Yutaka NakamuraAntonio Rovelli
Gianfranco Valente
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Index
7 Introduction
9 The H/V technique and example of its application for l’Aquila and
Rome areas Yutaka Nakamura
23 Modelling of ambient vibration wavefield for passive seismic
prospectingDario Albarello, Enrico Lunedei
37 Site characterization by seismic dilatometer (SDMT) in the area of L’AquilaSara Amoroso, Diego Marchetti, Silvano Marchetti, Paola Monaco,Ferdinando Totani, Gianfranco Totani
63 Base isolated buildings: economic evaluatations Paolo Clemente, Giacomo Buffarini
75 Seismic response of two couples of similar buildings in Pettino-L’Aquila during the 6 April 2009 earthquakeFrancesco Benedettini, Adriano De Sortis, Giuliano Milana
89 Dynamic interaction of soil and structure by rail traffic Arrigo Caserta, Maurizio Cerone, Francesco Crisi, Alberto Delladio, Gino D’Ovidio, Aladino Govoni, Fabrizio Marra, Yutaka Nakamura, Antonio Rovelli, Gianfranco Valente
109 The 6 April 2009 Abruzzi EarthquakeMauro Dolce
123 Seismic site response in L’Aquila city center and in suburban areas Giuliano Milana, Riccardo Mario Azzara, Francesco Bergamaschi, Etienne Bertrand, Paola Bordoni, Fabrizio Cara, Rocco Cogliano, Giovanna Cultrera, Giuseppe Di Giulio, Anne-Marie Duval, Antonio Fodarella, Sandro Marcucci, Stefania Pucillo, Julie Régnier, Gaetano Riccio
137 Extensive seismic survey with passive prospecting techniques: the L'Aquila earthquake example Dario Albarello, Maria Rosaria Gallipoli, Marcello Bianca
153 Earthquake Early Warning and Realtime Earthquake Disaster PreventionYutaka Nakamura
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Vincenzo Gattulli, Marco Lepidi, Francesco Potenza, Alfredo M. Ceci
181 Damage level vs fundamental frequencies of damaged RC buildings Rocco Ditommaso, Maria Rosaria Gallipoli, Marco Mucciarelli, Marco Vona
189 Analisi meccanica del danno di elementi non strutturali Antonello Salvatori
195 In-depth understanding of 2009 L'Aquila earthquake: the contribution of Gran Sasso physico-chemical groundwater data Raffaele Adinolfi Falcone, Antonella Amoruso, Valentina Carucci, Luca Crescentini, Antonella Falgiani, Mauro Manetta, Andrea Marchetti, Marco Paolessi, Barbara Parisse, Marco Petitta, Sergio Rusi, Donato Sciannamblo, Michele Spizzico, Marco Tallini
219 Authors index
167 Optimization of viscous coupling between adjacent structures excited by ground motion
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Introduction
It is a great pleasure for me to open this workshop on the dynamic interaction of soil-structure.
First of all I would like to welcome and thank Professor Yutaka Nakamura.
Professor Nakamura is one of the world’s leading scientists in engineering seismology.
He is President of the System and Data Research Company and a visiting professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Our special thanks go to the Organizing Committee and in particular, Professor Gianfranco Valente, who made this important event possible.
One of the most important causes of damage to structures is inaccuracy in estimating earthquake excitation characteristics during the design phase.
It is well known that many of the buildings in L'Aquila were built well over a hundred years ago. Hence the earthquake acted upon a variety of structures, some only designed for structural loads whilst others with no structural design at all. It is therefore reasonable to expect that the majority of structures experienced some damage.
The soil conditions of the area and the geological formation had a significant effect on the distribution of the structural damage.
The information that can be gathered from studies, symposia and workshops on microzonation and dynamic soil-structure interaction will contribute to more accurate estimations of expected ground motion caused by earthquakes and clarify governing principles for the structural rehabilitation of damaged buildings.
This is the main focus of this important workshop. In concluding my speech, I would like to wish you all a fruitful and
pleasant stay in our University.
The Director of Dpt DISAT at l’Aquila University: Dante Galeota
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This book is a collection of papers from the workshop “The Dynamic Interaction of Soil and Structure” (DISS_10) held in the city of L’Aquila approximately a year after the destructive earthquake of 6 April 2009. The workshop was organized by the University of L’Aquila, and supported by the Società Metropolitane di Roma, INGV and ENEA, with two important aims: the first to promote dialogue between scientists from differing disciplines (geologists, seismologists, engineers) to establish a preliminary picture of the earthquake and its impact on the territory; and the second to tackle more general problems concerning the safety of historical cities. In the debates that followed, unresolved problems were defined and innovative directions for new research and new perspectives proposed, with particular reference to monumental heritage. One of the greatest challenges undertaken by seismologists and earthquake engineers in the second half of the last century was the study of ground motion radiated by large earthquakes and its interaction with building structure. The slow but significant advance of research into experimental measurements, theoretical explanations and numerical modeling has provided the scientific community with extremely useful tools for the third millennium. Following the earthquake in April 2009 in L’Aquila, it has been shown that a significant amount of important information can be gathered after an earthquake. This information was presented during the workshop and formed the basis of a number of constructive discussions. Amongst the innovative tools discussed was the use of ambient vibrations which are particularly important in seismology and earthquake engineering because of their low cost and availability. However, the definition of a largely accepted theoretical basis is still controversial. This issue monopolized a significant percentage of presentations but further innovative ideas and models are also proposed in this book. The broad spectrum of contributions from across the scientific community presented in this book are a reflection of the specialized approach that is being adopted in this field.
The Papers from the Proceedings of the Workshop are published in the same order as they were presented during the Workshop. The Editors: Gino D’Ovidio, Yutaka Nakamura, Antonio Rovelli and Gianfranco Valente L’Aquila, 30 November 2010.
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1 System and Data Research, Tokyo, Japan
2 Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan
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The H/V Technique and Example of its Application for
L’Aquila and Rome Areas Yutaka Nakamura1, 2
Abstract The H/V technique is an estimation tool for the local site effect as not only the predominant frequency but also the amplification factor. Both microtremor and strong motion consist of various kinds of waves as P-wave, S-wave, Rayleigh wave, Love wave and so on, so the spec-trum derived from microtremor or strong motion shows many peaks corresponding to these wave components. From the viewpoint of the seismic disaster mitigation, it is important to pick out S-wave from microtremor and investigate its characteristics because the severe damage is mainly caused by S-wave. Although it is fine way to esti-mate the S-wave structure of the surface ground layers from the char-acteristics of Rayleigh wave, this technique requires not only a precise setup of the measurement points but also complex analysis. On the other hand, the H/V technique is established as a direct approach for the site amplification estimation, so it is easy to apply for the various ground condition. This paper shows the scheme of the H/V technique and its application for L’Aquila and Rome areas.
1. Introduction The H/V technique is an estimation tool for the local site effect as not only the predominant frequency but also the amplification factor. Both microtremor and strong motion consist of various kinds of waves as P-wave, S-wave, Rayleigh wave, Love wave and so on, so the spec-trum derived from microtremor or strong motion shows many peaks corresponding to these wave components. From the viewpoint of the
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seismic disaster mitigation, it is important to pick out S-wave from microtremor and investigate its characteristics because the severe damage is mainly caused by S-wave. Although it is fine way to esti-mate the S-wave structure of the surface ground layers from the char-acteristics of Rayleigh wave, this technique requires not only a precise setup of the measurement points but also complex analysis. On the other hand, the H/V technique is established as a direct approach for the site amplification, so it is easy to apply for the various ground condition. 2. Brief story of the H/V technique
Originally, the H/V spectral ratio was found from strong motion re-cords at various sites in Japan. Although the horizontal motion shows larger value than the vertical motion on the soft ground, the horizontal and the vertical motion are similar in both the maximum value and the shape of the waveform on the hard ground. At first, the horizontal to vertical ratio for the maximum value was derived and compared with the softness and the amplification factor of ground. As a result, the horizontal to vertical ratio of the maximum value highly corresponds to the ground characteristic on the same site [1]. Then the horizontal to vertical spectral ratio (H/V spectral ratio) of microtremor was estab-lished to estimate the predominant frequency and the amplification factor and confirmed that the estimation result is stable not depended on the measured time and season [2]. 3. Outline of the H/V technique There is no reason to be amplified the amplitude of a particular fre-quency range or direction at the hard and uniform ground. It is natural that the vibration in the hard ground is uniform for wide frequency range or each direction. The measured results of both microtremor and earthquake suggest it. On the other hand, it is important for a soft ground deposition over the hard basement to grasp the amplification characteristics of the horizontal motion. At the frequency range the horizontal motion is amplified, it seems that the vertical motion is not amplified. And at a ground with that kind of the amplification charac-
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teristics, it is important to consider the Rayleigh wave propagation on the ground surface. Earthquake disaster is caused mainly by the body wave and if the Rayleigh wave causes any damage, the damage must be a minor damage. That is to say, it is important to understand the phenomenon of the trapped energy of the body wave inside the soft surface layer. The phenomenon shows the amplification characteris-tics of earthquake motion by so called the multiple reflections. From this viewpoint, the Rayleigh wave exists as a noise and it is necessary to reject the effect of the Rayleigh wave. The effect of the Rayleigh wave for the amplification characteristics R (= Ahs/Ahb, the surface (Ahs) to the basement (Ahb) of the horizontal motion) of the surface ground is estimated by the surface (Avs) to the basement (Avb) ratio of the vertical motion E (= Avs/Avb). Then the corrected amplifica-tion characteristic Am is shown as follows;
Am = R/E = (Ahs/Ahb)/(Avs/Avb) = (Ahs/Avs)/(Ahb/Avb) Ahs/Avs This is the H/V spectral ratio [2]. Figure 1 shows the concept of the H/V technique. The H/V spectral ratio shows the amplification charac-teristics by the multiple reflections of the SH wave at least around the predominant frequency F0, and also shows the characteristics con-taminated by the Rayleigh wave around 2F0. In case of smaller effect of the Rayleigh wave, it is possi-ble to estimate not only the preliminary peak but also the secondary peak of the amplification characteristics caused by the multiple re-flections from the H/V spec-tral ratio. Please see [3] or [4] in detail. 4. Average velocity, thickness and vulnerability index of surface layer
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The H/V spectral ratio of both microtremor and strong motion can provide at least fundamental frequency and its amplification factor. Based on the predominant frequency Fg in Hz and the amplification factor Ag derived from the H/V spectral ratio, the average velocity AVS in m/s, the thickness h in m for the surface ground are defined as fol-lows,
AVS = Vb/Ag, h = AVS/(4Fg) = Vb/(4AgFg),
where Vb is velocity in basement ground. On the other hand, earthquake damage of members of structures occurs at the time of exceeding the destruct limit of the strain caused by deformation, and it may cause a collapse if the stability of the structure is lacked. Then the vulnerability index was de-fined focusing on the strain [5]. K value in 10-6/cm/s2 is defined to estimate the strain in the unit of 10-6 at particu-lar parts of the structures, multiplying the possible maximum acceleration at the engineering basement (see Figure 2). These K val-ues are defined individually for ground and various structures, as Kg value for ground, Kj value for em-bankment, Ks value for rigid frame structure, Kb value for building and Kd value for derailment. For example Kg value is defined as follows (see Figure 3).
Figure 2. Vulnerability indexes K values
Figure 3. Vulnerability index Kg value for surface ground
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Kg = Ag2/Fg
If maximum accelera-tion is 100 cm/s2 at the basement and Kg value is 20, the average strain at the surface ground layer is estimated 2000 (x10-6) and this strain may cause some damage to this ground. Figure 4 shows an exam-ple of the Kg value distri-bution at Marina district in San Francisco after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Large Kg (Kg > 20) were observed at the severe liquefied area. 5. Microtremor measurements in L’Aquila and Rome
5.1. Location and method Figure 5 shows the measurement area and locations in L’Aquila and Rome area. L’Aquila area was measured before the workshop with its par-ticipants. Rome area was measured after the workshop. Measure-ment locations around the Colosseum were set as extensions of meas-urement on 1998. Microtremor was measured at each site three times and its
Figure 4. An example of comparison between Kg value and damage
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length was 40.96 seconds in 100 Hz sampling using NewPIC+ of SDR (see the detail on http://www.sdr.co.jp). Fourier Spectrum and H/V spectral ratio were calculated for each 40.96 seconds data with twenty times Hanning window and then aver-aged the three data at each site. Peak frequency Fg and peak value Ag were read from the averaged spectral ratio H/V, and Kg value were calculated with these values.
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5.2. Results Figure 6 shows the aver-aged spectral ratio H/V for each sites. Please note that the point LRG7 shows abnormal result because of a strong wind, so this data was omitted from the discussions follow-ing. Table 1 summarizes the measurement result for Fg, Ag, Kg, h and AVS. According to this table the predominant fre-quencies in L’Aquila area dis-tributes totally wide range as 1-9 Hz, and distributes in 2-3 Hz in the mountain area (LRG). And that of Rome area distributes in 1-2 Hz. AVS as-suming Vs = 600 m/s shows large value in Rome and less than 100 m/s for many sites in L’Aquila, and this suggests that there may exists a soft ground in L’Aquila. The Kg value shows almost small amount in Rome and most part of L’Aquila except the mountain area (LRG), and that in the mountain area shows obvi-ously large value. Figure 7 shows the distribution of the Kg value. In this figure, the diameter of the circle for each point corresponds to the amount of its Kg value. It is found that the Kg value differs widely from each other. The campus of L’Aquila University in the old town (ULG) was suffered se-
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Table 1. Summary of measurements
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vere damage. Espe-cially in the courtyard filled by the ancient debris, the embankment higher than surrounding roads liquefied severely and flew out to the sur-rounding roads. Hence Kg values are still over 20 even after recon-struction of the em-bankment, Kg values can be estimated in the same range before the reconstruction and the shear strain in the sur-face ground seems to be over 1/200 caused by the several hun-dreds Gals strong mo-tion in the basement ground and the severe liquefaction may be occurred. There were also subsided road may caused by the liquefac-tion, so the Kg value seems to be large, too. Thus, advance calcula-tion of Kg value with the microtremor meas-urement can help tak-ing the proper coun-termeasure previously with choosing the pos-sible damage area of
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the ground fluidization or subsidence. The Kg values on the mountain area (LRG) are larger than that of other area, especially in the northern side. A leaning bust near the point LRG1 might be suffered by damaged ground. To-tally in the L’Aquila area the surface ground dam-age would be caused in the area with Kg > 10. 6. Discussion Figure 8 shows a comparison between the spectral ratio H/V of the strong motion records (PGA was around 650 Gal) and that of the microtremor at the observatory AQV. Obviously, both the predominant frequency and the amplification factor of the strong motion are sifted lower and larger, respectively. It seems that this caused by non-linearity of the surface ground. According to the results of surface layer investigation shown in Figure 9 [6], the surface ground is estimated as the sediment of silty soil of around 50m depth on limestone. However the amplitude of strong motion displacement is around 5cm derived from the double in-tegration of the acceleration records, and the shear strain will be as-sessed as 1/1000 approximately, then a non-linearity shown in Figure8 may not be occurred. Assuming the shear wave velocity (Vs) of the basement ground as 600 m/s regarding to the layer investigation, AVS = 110 m/s and h = 9 m for the surface ground are estimated from the H/V spectrum of the
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microtremor. Al-though the layer with the compa-rable depth can be seen in Figure 9, Vs is around 400 m/s and is not similar to this. Assuming that the estimation re-sult from the mi-crotremor meas-urement is cor-rect, if the depth of the surface layer is 9 m and the displacement at the ground sur-face is around 5 cm, the shear strain is esti-mated as 6/1000 (= 5 cm / 900 cm). On the other hand, because the Kg value at this site is 10, the shear strain at the ground surface can be estimated at most 6/1000 (= 10 x 600 Gal x 10-6) with assuming that the maximum ac-celeration at the basement ground is 600 Gal. Both result of the shear strain estimation are similar to each other. According to the G- curve for the clay arranged by Ishihara [7] shown in Figure 10, the rigidity of the soil will be reduced to 1/3 with such shear strain. This corresponds to the 0.58 times of the frequency shift and it is agreeable to the observed frequency change from 2.9 Hz to 1.7 Hz. Namely, the frequency sift shown in the strong motion is attributed to the surface ground 9 m thick and 110 m/s AVS.
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Figure 7. Distributions of Kg value: outside diameter of concentric circles correspond to 20 of Kg value
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The Kg value related to the earthquake damage to the surface ground is often more than 10 and it corre-sponds to the sedimentary layers less than 200 m/s of AVS. In Japan the ground of AVS 500-600 m/s is stiff enough to the basement ground. It is important to extract accurately the sedi-mentary ground with large Kg value and then to grasp the dynamic characteristics of that site. 7. Conclusion This paper describes the outline of the H/V technique developed by focusing on the multi-reflection phenomena in surface ground and shows its application with the data of the microtremor measure-ment at the workshop. This time the measurement was done only on the ground. Next time I would like to measure microtremor not only on the ground but also on structures or on buildings. The microtremor includes various valid information. I would like to keep challeng-ing to create proper analysis methods for various purposes
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Figure 8. Comparison between spectral ratio H/V of strong motion and that of microtremor at the site AQV
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Figure 9. Geological profile of the site AQV (modified from [6])
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