We study how the fault dip and slip rake angles affect near-source ground velocities and displacements as faulting transitions from strike-slip motion on a vertical fault to thrust motion on a shallow-dipping fault. Ground motions are computed for five fault geometries with different combinations of fault dip and rake angles and common values for the fault area and the average slip. The nature ...

ABSTRACT This article introduces a strong-motion dataset of near-source broadband earthquake ground motions from 3D physics-based numerical simulations—named BB-SPEEDset—obtained by the code SPEED (SPectral Elements in Elastodynamics with Discontinuous Galerkin)—developed at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Taking advantage ground-motion scenarios produced so far SPEED, most cases validated agains...

Continuous girder bridges have been extensively constructed in China over the past 30 years, and these tend to experience severe damage under ground motions with velocity pulses. In current research, an innovative linear friction damper (LFD) is proposed mitigate seismic damages of continuous subjected near-fault motions. The OpenSees platform adopted establish numerical model a bridge region. ...

We revisit a unique building system including base-isolation, building-connection hybrid control system. The base-isolation withstands pulse-type earthquake ground motions effectively and the resists long-duration efficiently. A simple smart critical response evaluation method without nonlinear time-history analysis is proposed for this under near-fault motions. An analytical expression of maxi...