The response of geotechnical structures under earthquake loading is highly nonlinear and often leads to problems of slope stability, foundation settlement and soil liquef [...]

This contribution gives an overview of the SINAPS@ French research project (http://www.institutseism.fr/en/projects/sinaps/) which motivated the mini-symposium, and then [...]

This study presents a preliminary calibration of a large-scale seismological model of the MW 6.6 Niigata-Ken Chuetsu-Oki (Japan) earthquake of July, 16th 2007. The strong [...]

Spatial variability of earthquake ground motion (SVEGM) refers to the differences in amplitude and phase between recordings of the same earthquake at different locations. [...]

Whatever the level of seismicity of a country, the seismic risk has to be assessed and accounted in the frame of nuclear plant safety, from its design, during its operati [...]

A binary mixture model is proposed to study the effects on liquefaction-induced settlement after soil improvement based on the consideration of the added spatial variabil [...]

The current seismic design philosophy is based on nonlinear behavior of structures where the foundation soil is often simplified by a modification of the input accelerati [...]

The development of excess pore pressure (∆pw ) and consequent reduction in effective stress leads to the softening of a liquefiable soil deposit that can alter ground m [...]

As a first approach to account for site effects on the behaviour of collapsed structures during the Cariaco Earthquake of 1997 in Venezuela, a simplified soil profile was [...]

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the accuracy of 2D FE plane-strain computations compared to complete 3D FE computations for dynamic non-linear SSI problems. I [...]