Accounting for site characterization uncertainties when developing ground-motion prediction equations
Gehl, Pierre and Bonilla, Luis Fabian and Douglas, John (2011) Accounting for site characterization uncertainties when developing ground-motion prediction equations. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 101 (3). pp. 1101-1108. ISSN 0037-1106
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Current ground-motion prediction equations invariably assume that site conditions at strong-motion stations, often characterized by the average shear-wave velocity to a depth of 30 m (VS30), are known to a uniform accuracy. This is, however, rarely the case. In this article, we present a regression procedure based on generalized least-squares and maximum-likelihood approaches that take into account the varying uncertainties on VS30. Assuming that VS30s for various groups of stations are known to different accuracies, application of this procedure to a large set of records from the Japanese KiK-net shows that the regression coefficients are largely insensitive to the assumption of nonuniform uncertainties. However, this procedure allows the computation of a site-specific standard deviation (σ) that should be used for sites where VS30 is known to different accuracies (e.g., a site only specified by class or a site with a measured VS profile). For sites with a measured VS profile, this leads to lower sitespecific σ than for a site that is poorly characterized because this technique explicitly models the separation between the epistemic uncertainty in VS30 and the aleatory variability in predicted ground motion.
| Creators(s): |
Gehl, Pierre, Bonilla, Luis Fabian and Douglas, John  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3822-0060;
| Item type: | Article |
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| ID code: | 53434 |
| Keywords: | aleatory variability, epistemic uncertainties, generalized least square, ground motions, ground-motion prediction equations, maximum-likelihood approach, regression coefficient, shear-wave velocity, site characterization, site conditions, site-specific, standard deviation, strong-motion, Physics, Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General), Geochemistry and Petrology, Geophysics |
| Subjects: | Science > Physics Technology > Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) |
| Department: | Faculty of Engineering > Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
| Date deposited: | 19 Jun 2015 11:58 |
| Last modified: | 06 Jul 2020 01:18 |
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| URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/53434 |
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