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Ground motion evaluation procedures for performance-based design

Stewart, Jonathan P.; Chiou, Brian S. J.; Bray, Jonathan D.; Graves, Robert W.; Somerville, Paul G.; Abrahamson, Norman A.

PEER-2001/09, Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, 2001-09-01, 229 pages (400/P33/2001-09)

This report synthesizes contemporary procedures for ground motion analysis within a performance-based design framework and documents the past and future role of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center research in developing these procedures. Each component of ground motion analysis is described, regardless of whether PEER has sponsored research on that topic. The subjects of source, path, and site effects are discussed in six chapters: Source characterization: minimum and maximum magnitude, magnitude recurrence relations; Attenuation relations: regression analysis procedures and factors affecting spectral acceleration and other ground motion parameters; Near-fault ground motions: rupture directivity and fling step effects; Site effects: observational studies of site effects, analysis procedures for one-dimensional ground response, basin response, and topographic effects; Ground motion simulation: elements of simulation methods, example procedures, verification and future use of simulation; and Time history selection: de-aggregation of hazard, time history selection, and scaling of time histories.

Available online: http://peer.berkeley.edu/publications/peer_reports/reports_2001/0109.pdf