Stochastic Analysis of Seismic Safety Against Liquefaction

Liquefaction of sand deposits during earthquakes is studied as a problem of random vibration of nonlinear-hysteretic systems. The random vibration results lead to the determination of the mean and standard deviation of the strong-motion duration of a random seismic loading with a given intensity that causes liquefaction. These statistics are used to define the seismic resistance curves against liquefaction in the deposit. It is assumed that liquefaction occurs when the excess pore pressure becomes equal to initial effective overburden pressure, i.e. when the shearing stiffness of the sand deteriorates to zero under repeated alternate shaking.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Civil Engineering

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Pires, Jose Antunes

• Engineering, Civil

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8324621

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69924