Too often the Eartha (TM)s surface acted as a divide between
seismologists and engineers. Now it is becoming clear that the
building behaviour largely depends on the seismic input and the
buildings on their turn act as seismic sources, in an intricate
interplay that non-linear phenomena make even more complex. These
phenomena are often the cause of observed damage enhancement during
past earthquakes. While research may pursue complex models to fully
understand soil dynamics under seismic loading, we need also simple
models valid on average, whose results can be easily transferred to
end users.
Under the title a oeIncreasing Seismic Safety by Combining
Engineering Technologies and Seismological Dataa, we grouped
several topics to be discussed together by engineers and
seismologists: (1) Can we use ambient noise building and soil
characterisation to extract useful information for engineers? (2)
How we can tell apart a frequency decrease due to distributed
damage, concentrated damage, time- varying building and soil
behaviour? (3) Which is the role of transients in ambient noise
analysis? (4) Can we quantify the influence of existing buildings
on ground-motion recordings? (5) To which extent soil-building
resonance is a cause of damage enhancement? (6) How to couple soil
and building non-linear behaviour?
On most questions there is an unanimous answer, but in some
cases different views are present and the disagreement is
faithfully reported.
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