The role of strong motion rotations in the response of structures near earthquake faults

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 382-393

  Trifunac, Mihailo D ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake response of structures near faults; Strong earthquake rotations

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; CIVIL ENGINEERING; DEFORMATION; DIGITAL COMPUTERS; EARTHQUAKES; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; FLUID DYNAMICS; LINEARIZATION; PRESSES (MACHINE TOOLS); PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; ROTATION; ROTATIONAL FLOW; SEISMOLOGY; SOLUTIONS;

CHAOTIC SOLUTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL CAPABILITIES; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERINGS; EARTHQUAKE EXCITATIONS; EARTHQUAKE FAULTS; EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE OF STRUCTURES NEAR FAULTS; EARTHQUAKE SHAKING; ENGINEERING PROFESSIONS; FAVORABLE CONDITIONS; FRACTURE PROCESSES; GERMANY; GROUND MOTIONS; HEIDELBERG; HIGH FREQUENCIES; HISTORICAL REVIEWS; LARGE DEFORMATIONS; LINEAR MATERIALS; LONG WAVES; MASS MODELS; METROPOLITAN AREAS; NEW THEORIES; NON-LINEAR RESPONSES; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; RESPONSE SPECTRUM METHODS; RESPONSE SPECTRUMS; ROTATIONAL COMPONENTS; ROTATIONAL MOTIONS; ROTATIONAL WAVES; SPACE COORDINATES; STRONG EARTHQUAKE ROTATIONS; STRONG MOTIONS; STRUCTURAL DEFORMATIONS; STRUCTURAL MOTIONS; SYSTEM SCIENCES;

DYNAMIC RESPONSE;

BIOT THEORY; BUILDING; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; GROUND MOTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC RESPONSE; STRONG MOTION; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE; VIBRATION;

EID: 56949083790     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2008.04.001     Document Type: Article

References (94)

1. Biot MA. Vibrations of building during earthquake, Chapter II. Ph.D. Thesis no. 259 entitled transient oscillations in elastic systems. Pasadena, CA: Aeronautics Department, California Institute of Technology; 1932.
2. Biot M.A. Theory of elastic systems vibrating under transient impulse with an application to earthquake-proof buildings. Proc Natl Acad Sci 19 2 (1933) 262-268
3. Biot M.A. Theory of vibration of buildings during earthquake. Zeitsch Angew Mat Mech 14 4 (1934) 213-223
4. Trifunac M.D. 75th anniversary of the response spectrum method-a historical review. Soil Dyn Earthquake Eng 2008, in press, doi:10.1016/j.soildyn.2007.11.007.
5. Biot M.A. Mechanics of incremental deformation (1965), Wiley, New York
6. Gičev V., and Trifunac M.D. Permanent deformations and strains in a shear building excited by a strong motion pulse. Soil Dyn Earthquake Eng 27 8 (2007) 774-792
7. Gičev V., and Trifunac M.D. Energy and power of nonlinear waves in a seven story reinforced concrete building. Indian Soc Earthquake Tech J 44 1 (2007) 305-323
8. Teisseyre R, Majewski E. Physics of earthquakes. International handbook of earthquake and engineering seismology. Part A, 2002. p. 229-35.
9. Kharin D.A., and Simonov L.I. VBPP seismometer for separate registration of translational motion and rotations. Seism Instrum 5 (1969) 51-66 [in Russian]
10. Lee V.W., and Trifunac M.D. Torsional accelerograms. Int J Soil Dyn Earthquake Eng 4 3 (1985) 132-139
11. Lee V.W., and Trifunac M.D. Rocking strong earthquake accelerations. Int J Soil Dyn Earthquake Eng 6 2 (1987) 75-89
12. Niazi M. Inferred displacements, velocities and rotations of long rigid foundation located in El Centro differential array site during the 1979 Imperial Valley, California earthquake. Earthquake Eng Struct Dyn 14 (1986) 531-542
13. Graizer V.M. Determination of the path of ground motion during seismic phenomena. Izv USSR Acad Sci Phys Solid Earth 22 10 (1987) 791-794
14. Graizer V.M. Ob izmerenii naklona zemnoi poverhnosti vblizi epicentra vzriva. Dokladi Akademii Nauk S.S.S.R., Geofizika 305 2 (1989) 314-318
15. Graizer V.M. Inertial seismometry methods. Izv USSR Acad Sci Phys Solid Earth 27 1 (1991) 51-61
16. Graizer V.M. Equations of pendulum motion including rotations and its implications to the strong ground motion, Chapter 34. In: Teisseyre R., Takeo M., and Majewski E. (Eds). Earthquake source asymmetry, structural media and rotation effects (2006), Springer, Heidelberg, Germany 471-485
17. Graizer V.M. Tilts in strong ground motion. Bull Seism Soc Am 96 6 (2006) 2090-2102
18. Nigbor R.L. Sex-degree-of-freedom ground motion measurements. Bull Seism Soc Amer 84 5 (1994) 1665-1669
19. Takeo M. Ground rotational motions recorded in near-source region of earthquakes. Geophys Res Lett 25 6 (1998) 789-792
20. Takeo M. Ground rotational motions recorded in near-source region of earthquakes, Chapter 12. In: Teisseyre R., Takeo M., and Majewski E. (Eds). Earthquake source asymmetry, structural media and rotation effects (2006), Springer, Heidelberg, Germany 157-167
21. Huang B.S. Ground rotational motions of the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan earthquake as inferred from dense array observations. Geophys Res Lett 30 6 (2003) Art. nos. 1307, 40-1, 40-4
22. Trifunac M.D. Effects of torsional and rocking excitations on the response of structures, Chapter 39. In: Teisseyre R., Takeo M., and Majewski E. (Eds). Earthquake source asymmetry, structural media and rotation effects (2006), Springer, Heidelberg, Germany 569-582
23. Kalkan E., and Graizer V. Multi-component ground motion spectra for coupled horizontal, vertical, angular accelerations, and tilt. ISET J Earthquake Technol 44 1 (2007) 259-284
24. Kalkan E., and Graizer V. Coupled tilt and translational ground motion response spectra. ASCE J Struct Eng 133 5 (2007) 609-619
25. Trifunac M.D. A note on rotational components of earthquake motions for incident body waves. Soil Dyn Earthquake Eng 1 1 (1982) 11-19
26. Teisseyre R., Suchcicki J., Teisseyre K., Wiszniowski J., and Palangio P. Seismic rotation waves: basic elements of theory and recording. Ann Geophys 46 4 (2003) 671-685
27. Teisseyre R., and Boratynski W. Continuum with self-rotational nuclei: evolution of defect fields and equations of motion. Acta Geophys Pol 50 (2002) 223-230
28. Farrell W.F. A gyroscopic seismometer: measurements during the Borrego Earthquake. Bull Seism Soc Am 59 3 (1969) 1239-1245
29. Bradner H., and Reichle M. Some methods for determining acceleration and tilt by use of pendulums and accelerometers. Bull Seism Soc Am 63 1 (1973) 1-7
30. Bouchon M., and Aki K. Strain and rotation associated with strong ground motion in the vicinity of earthquake faults. Bull Seism Soc Am 72 5 (1982) 1717-1738
31. Castellani A., and Boffi G. Rotational components of the surface ground motion during an earthquake. Earthquake Eng Struct Dyn 14 (1986) 751-767
32. Castellani A., and Boffi G. On the rotational components of seismic motion. Earthquake Eng Struct Dyn 18 (1989) 785-797
33. Oliveira C.S., and Bolt B.A. Rotational components of surface strong ground motion. Earthquake Eng Struct Dyn 18 (1989) 517-526
34. Nathan N.D., and MacKenzie J.R. Rotational components of earthquake motion. Can J Civil Eng 2 (1975) 430-436
35. Droste Z., and Teisseyre R. Rotational and displacement components of ground motion as deduced from data of the azimuth system of seismographs. Publs Inst Geophys Pol Acad Sci 97 (1976) 157-167
36. Moslem K, Trifunac MD. Effects of soil-structure interaction on the response of buildings during strong earthquake ground motion. Los Angeles, CA: Department of Civil Engineering report no. CE 86-04, University of Southern California; 1986. Available from; http://www.usc.edu/dept/civil_eng/Earthquake_eng/.
37. Trifunac MD, Todorovska MI. Recording and interpreting earthquake response of full-scale structures. In: Proceedings of the NATO advanced research workshop on strong-motion instrumentation for civil eng. structures, June 2-5, 1999. Istanbul, Turkey, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publication; 2001. p. 131-55.
38. Trifunac MD, Ivanović SS. Analysis of drifts in a seven-story reinforced concrete structure. Report no. CE 03-01. Los Angeles, CA: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Southern California; 2003. Available from; http://www.usc.edu/dept/civil_eng/Earthquake_eng/.
39. Trifunac M.D., Ivanovic S.S., Todorovska M.I., Novikova E.I., and Gladkov A.P. Experimental evidence for flexibility of a building foundation supported by concrete friction piles. Soil Dyn Earthquake Eng 18 3 (1999) 169-187
40. In: Teisseyre R., Takeo M., and Majewski E. (Eds). Earthquake source asymmetry, structural media and rotation effects (2006), Springer, Berlin Heidelberg
41. Haskell N.A. Elastic displacements in the near field of a propagating fault. Bull Seism Soc Am 59 (1969) 865-908
42. Trifunac MD. Broad band extension of fourier amplitude spectra of strong motion acceleration. Report CE 93-01. Los Angeles, CA: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Southern California; 1993. Available from; http://www.usc.edu/dept/civil_eng/Earthquake_eng/.
43. Trifunac MD, Todorovska MI. Broadband extension of pseudo relative velocity spectra of strong motion. Report CE 94-02. Los Angeles, CA: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Southern California; 1994. Available from; http://www.usc.edu/dept/civil_eng/Earthquake_eng/.
44. Richter C.F. Elementary seismology (1958), Freeman and Co., San Francisco
45. Trifunac M.D. Stresses and intermediate frequencies of strong motion acceleration. Geofizika 14 (1998) 1-27
46. Trifunac M.D., Todorovska M.I., and Lee V.W. The Rinaldi strong motion accelerogram of the Northridge, California, earthquake of 17 January 1994. Earthquake Spectra 14 1 (1998) 225-239
47. Chen K.-C., Huang B.-S., Wang J.-H., Huang W.-G., Chang T.-M., Hwang R.-D., et al. An observation of rupture pulses of the 20 September 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, earthquake from near-field seismograms. Bull Seism Soc Am 91 5 (2001) 1247-1254
48. Todorovska M.I., and Trifunac M.D. Impulse response analysis of the Van Nuys 7-story hotel during 11 earthquakes and earthquake damage detection. Struct Control Health Monitor 15 1 (2008) 90-116
49. Trifunac M.D., and Todorovska M.I. Nonlinear soil response-1994 Northridge, California earthquake. J Geotech Eng, ASCE 122 9 (1996) 725-735
50. Trifunac M.D., and Udwadia F.E. Parkfield, California, earthquake of June 27, 1966: a three-dimensional moving dislocation. Bull Seism Soc Am 64 3 (1974) 511-533
51. Trifunac M.D. A three-dimensional dislocation model for the San Fernando, California earthquake of February 9, 1971. Bull Seism Soc Am 64 (1974) 149-172
52. Housner G.W., and Trifunac M.D. Analysis of accelerograms-Parkfield earthquake. Bull Seism Soc Amer 57 6 (1967) 1193-1220
53. Trifunac M.D., and Hudson D.E. Analysis of the Pacoima Dam accelerogram, San Fernando, California earthquake of 1971. Bull Seism Soc Am 61 5 (1971) 1393-1411
54. Trifunac MD, Lee VW. Routine computer processing of strong-motion accelerograms. Pasadena, CA: Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory, EERL 73-03, California Institute of Technology; 1973. Available from; http://www.usc.edu/dept/civil_eng/Earthquake_eng/.
55. Trifunac MD, Lee VW. Uniformly processed strong earthquake ground accelerations in the Western United States of America for the period from 1933 to 1971: corrected acceleration, velocity and displacement curves. Report CE 78-01. Los Angeles, CA: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Southern California; 1978. Available from; http://www.usc.edu/dept/civil_eng/Earthquake_eng/.
56. Lin CH, Lee VW, Trifunac MD. Effects of boundary drainage on the reflection of elastic waves in a poroelastic half space saturated with non-viscous fluid. Report no. CE 01-04. Los Angeles, CA: Department of Civil Engineering University of Southern California; 2001. Available from; http://www.usc.edu/dept/civil_eng/Earthquake_eng/.
57. Sanchez-Sesma F.J., Palencia V.J., and Luzon F. Estimation of local site effects during earthquakes: an overview. Indian Soc Earthquake Technol J 39 3 (2002) 167-194
58. Trifunac MD. Stress estimates for San Fernando, California earthquake of February 9, 1971: main event and thirteen aftershocks. Bull Seism Soc Am 1972a;62(3):721-50.
59. Takeo M., and Ito H.I. What can be learned from rotational motions excited by earthquakes?. Geophys J Int 129 (1997) 319-329
60. Trifunac M.D., and Todorovska. Tsunami source parameters of submarine earthquakes and slides. In: Locat J., and Mienert J. (Eds). In: Proceeding of the first international symposium on submarine mass movements and their consequences. EGS-AGU-EUG joint meeting, Nice, France, April 7-11 (2003), Kluwer Academic Publishers 121-128
61. Trifunac M.D. Buildings as sources of rotational waves, Chapter I.5. In: Teisseyre R., Nagahama H., and Majewski E. (Eds). Physics of asymmetric continua: extreme and fracture processes (2008), Springer, Heidelberg, Germany [in press]
62. Sezawa K., and Kanai K. Decay in the seismic vibration of a simple or tall structure by dissipation of their energy into the ground. Bull Earth Res Inst XIII 3 (1935) 681-697
63. Sezawa K., and Kanai K. Improved theory of energy dissipation in seismic vibrations on a structure. Bull Earth Res Inst XIV 2 (1936) 164-168
64. Biot M.A. Influence of foundation on motion of blocks. Soil Dyn Earthquake Eng 26 6-7 (2006) 486-490
65. Trifunac M.D. A method for synthesizing realistic strong ground motion. Bull Seism Soc Am 61 6 (1971) 1739-1753
66. Wong H.L., and Trifunac M.D. Generation of artificial strong-motion accelerograms. Earthquake Eng Struct Dyn 7 6 (1979) 509-527
67. Lee V.W. Surface strains associated with strong earthquake shaking. JSCE 422 1-14 (1990) 187-194
68. Trifunac M.D. Curvograms of strong ground motion. ASCE, J Eng Mech Div 116 6 (1990) 1426-1432
69. Newmark NM. Torsion in symmetrical buildings. In: Proceedings of the 4th world conference on earthquake engineering, Santiago, Chile, 1969. p. A3.19-32.
70. Trifunac M.D., and Todorovska M.I. A note on the useable dynamic range of accelerographs' recording translation. Soil Dyn Earthquake Eng 21 4 (2001) 275-286
71. Yuan S.W. Foundations of fluid mechanics (1967), Prentice-Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ
72. Trifunac M.D., and Novikova E.I. Duration of earthquake fault motion in California. Earthquake Eng Struct Dyn 24 6 (1995) 781-799
73. Trifunac M.D. Preliminary analysis of the peaks of strong earthquake ground motion-dependence of peaks on earthquake magnitude, epicentral distance and the recording site conditions. Bull Seism Soc Am 66 1 (1976) 189-219
74. Gupta VK, Trifunac MD. Investigation of building response to translational and rotational earthquake excitations. Report CE 89-02. Los Angeles, CA: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Southern California; 1989. Available from: http://www.usc.edu/dept/civil_eng/Earthquake_eng/.
75. Todorovska M.I., and Lee V.W. Seismic waves in buildings with shear walls or central core. J Eng Mech, ASCE 115 12 (1989) 2669-2686
76. Todorovska M.I., and Trifunac M.D. Propagation of earthquake waves in buildings with soft first floor. J Eng Mech, ASCE 116 4 (1990) 892-900
77. Todorovska M.I., and Trifunac M.D. A note on excitation of long structures by ground waves. J Eng Mech, ASCE 116 4 (1990) 952-964
78. Trifunac M.D., and Todorovska M.I. Response spectra and differential motion of columns. Earthquake Eng Struct Dyn 26 2 (1997) 251-268
79. Trifunac M.D., and Gičev V. Response spectra for differential motion of columns. Paper II: Out-of-plane response. Soil Dyn Earthquake Eng 26 12 (2006) 1149-1160
80. Ghobarah A. On drift limits associated with different damage levels. In: Proceedings of the international workshop on performance-based seismic design. Bled, Slovenia, 2004. p. 321-32.
81. Duvall WI, Fogelson DE. Review of criteria for estimating damage to residences from blasting vibrations. US Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines. Report of investigations 5968, 1962.
82. Trifunac M.D., and Brady A.G. On the correlation of seismic intensity scales with the peaks of recorded strong ground motion. Bull Seism Soc Am 65 1 (1975) 139-162
83. Trifunac M.D. Nonlinear soil response as a natural passive isolation mechanism. Paper II-The 1933 Long Beach, California earthquake. Soil Dyn Earthquake Eng 23 7 (2003) 549-562
84. Trifunac M.D., and Todorovska M.I. Northridge, California, earthquake of 1994: density of red-tagged buildings versus peak horizontal velocity and intensity of shaking. Soil Dyn Earthquake Eng 16 3 (1997) 209-222
85. Trifunac M.D., and Todorovska M.I. Nonlinear soil response as a natural passive isolation mechanism-the 1994 Northridge, California earthquake. Soil Dyn Earthquake Eng 17 1 (1998) 41-51
86. Trifunac M.D., and Todorovska M.I. Reduction of structural damage by nonlinear soil response. J Struct Eng, ASCE 125 1 (1998) 89-97
87. Trifunac M.D., and Todorovska M.I. Long period microtremors, microseisms and earthquake damage: Northridge, California earthquake of 17 January 1994. Soil Dyn Earthquake Eng 19 4 (2000) 253-267
88. Jalali R., Trifunac M.D., Ghodrati Amiri G., and Zahedi M. Wave-passage effects on strength-reduction factors for design of structures near earthquake faults. Soil Dyn Earthquake Eng 27 8 (2007) 703-711
89. Jalali R., and Trifunac M.D. A note on strength reduction factors for design of structures near earthquake faults. Soil Dyn Earthquake Eng 28 3 (2008) 212-222
90. Trifunac M.D. Differential earthquake motion of building foundations. J Struct Eng, ASCE 4 (1997) 414-422
91. Jalali R., and Trifunac M.D. Strength-reduction factors for structures subjected to differential near-source ground motion. Indian Soc Earthquake Technol J 44 1 (2007) 285-304
92. Fletcher J., Boatwright J., Haar L., Hanks T., and McGarr A. Source parameters for aftershocks of the Oroville, California, earthquake. Bull Seism Soc Am 74 4 (1984) 1101-1123
93. Trifunac MD. Tectonic stress and source mechanism of the Imperial Valley, California earthquake of 1940. Bull Seism Soc Am 1972b;62(5):1283-302.
94. Trifunac MD. Nonlinear problems in earthquake engineering. In: Springer's encyclopedia of complexity and system science, 2008 [in press].