Koichiro Asano (auth.), Y. K. Lin, R. Minai (eds.)'s Stochastic Approaches in Earthquake Engineering: U.S.-Japan PDF

By Koichiro Asano (auth.), Y. K. Lin, R. Minai (eds.)

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ISBN-13: 9783540184621

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From the preface: This quantity is a suite of papers offered on the U.S. - Japan Joint Seminar on Stochastic ways in Earthquake Engineering hung on may perhaps 6 and seven, 1987. the final subject matter of the two-day software used to be the applying of likelihood and records to engineering difficulties regarding robust floor movement. inside of this normal subject matter a very good number of topics have been lined, together with earthquake cataloging, flooring movement modeling, procedure id, failure mechanisms, reaction and reliability analyses, numerical recommendations, and energetic regulate. The engineering platforms thought of incorporated constructions, bridges and life-line networks.

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75, 939-964. 5 ....... ,. ,. ,. ,. , ...... --.... 0 .......... ' .... _..... L;;;;&.......... o 50 100 150 200 Time. T (yrs) 250 Fig. 1: Renewal' model results for various triggering magnitudes me and gap values to of zero and somewhat larger than the mean interarrival time. 5 ....... 4 en s.. 3 ~ ,,' , ..... 3 . I . 'Y ........... 1 /.. ,':~~----~----------------~-------------i -1/ . ,. 1--....... ". ". ~ o 250 Gap length' since last event. to [yrs] Fig. 2: Renewal model results as in Fig. 1.

3E[T]. and less than three times the Poisson hazard for H less than about O. 75E[ T]. virtually independently of V,.. These results may prove quite useful in practice. Finally. note that these first-event risk ratios (Eqs. 8 and 9. Figure 3) are independent of both the critical magnitude me and the window length T of interest. In general. e.. no "slippredictability"). In contrast. the cancelling of T requires relatively constant activity (hazard) rate over the time window. More generally. the first-event probability h (to) T in Eq.

Is the sequence of earthquakes in Southern California. with aftershocks removed. Poissonian? Bull. Seism. Sac. • 64. 1363-1367. Howard. R. A. {1971}. JJynamic Probabilistic Systems. Volume II: Semi-Markov and Decision Processes. Wiley. Kameda. H. and Y. Ozaki {1979}. A renewal process model for use in seismic risk analysis. Mem. Fac. • Kyoto University. XU. 11-35. Kiremidjian. A. S. and T. Anagnos {1964}. Stochastic slip-predictable model for earthquake occurrences. Bull. Seism. Sac. • 74. 739-755.

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