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http://dx.doi.org/10.5000/EESK.2006.10.1.017

A Study on the Synthesis of Strong Ground Motion using Empirical Green Function  

Kim, Jun-Kyoung (세명대학교 자원환경공학과)
Lee, Sang-Hoon (한국전력기술(주))
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Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea / v.10, no.1, 2006 , pp. 17-23 More about this Journal
Abstract
The research on strong ground motions became important recently due to more severe requirement of seismic design for the domestic buildings and structures. The empirical Green's function method, which uses similarities between small and large earthquakes, was applied to make synthetic ground motions. That method was applied to the 2 earthquakes which occurred sequently in time within narrow area in Japan. The strong ground motions for the virtual earthquake (magnitude 6.5) were synthesized using those observed from the magnitude 4.7 earthquake. Then, the synthesized ground motions (acceleration, velocity, and displacement) were compared to those observed from real earthquake (magnitude 6.5). The results showed that the general shapes of waveforms in time domain and the Fourier spectrum In frequency domain from synthesized ground motions (acceleration, velocity, and displacement) are similar to the observed strong ground motions within acceptable degree. The peak values of 3 kinds of synthesized strong ground motions in time domain are comparable between the synthesized and the real strong ground motions, especially only about 9% difference in acceleration peak value.
Keywords
empirical Green's function method; strong ground motion; synthetic ground motion;
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