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Engineering seismology - MG452P89
Title: Inženýrská seismologie
Czech title: Inženýrská seismologie
Guaranteed by: Institute of Hydrogeology, Engineering Geology and Applied Geophysics (31-450)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2023
Semester: both
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: written
Hours per week, examination: 2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Note: enabled for web enrollment
you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
Guarantor: RNDr. Jan Burjánek, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): RNDr. Jan Burjánek, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: Rudolf Trnka (31.05.2023)
Earthquakes are natural phenomena with high social impact. Understand the roles of geophysics, geology and
earthquake engineering in earthquake hazard analysis. Explore the issues faced in seismic hazard assessments
for the areas of interest on case studies of recent earthquakes. Learn the procedures which can be directly
applied in practice (e.g., reinsurance industry), as well as current topics of the basic geophysical research with
high public importance.
Aim of the course -
Last update: Rudolf Trnka (31.05.2023)

A general introduction to the methods of seismic hazard analysis - an overview of the input data and the tools in deterministic and probabilistic seismic hazard assessment; discussions of the related uncertainties.

Literature -
Last update: Rudolf Trnka (31.05.2023)

Kramer, S. L. (1996). Geotechnical earthquake engineering. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ.

McGuire, R. K. (2004). Seismic Hazard and Risk Analysis, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Oakland, CA.

Reiter, L., (1990). Earthquake Hazard Analysis - Issues and insights, Columbia University Press, New York.

Requirements to the exam - Czech
Last update: Rudolf Trnka (31.05.2023)

Zkouška je písemná, požadavky odpovídají sylabu v rozsahu prezentovaném na přednášce.

Syllabus -
Last update: Rudolf Trnka (31.05.2023)

Introduction Science vs. Engineering. Seismic hazard vs. Seismic risk. Engineering seismology vs. Earthquake engineering.

Pre-instrumental seismology Historical seismology. Archeoseismology. Paleoseismology. Macroseismic intensity. Macroseismic catalogue.

Instrumental seismology Accelerometric networks. Strong motion databases. Magnitudes. Instrumental catalogue.

Ground motion parameters Peak values of acceleration, velocity, displacement - their use. Response spectra and relation to Fourier spectra. Random vibration theory and inverse random vibration theory (RVT, resp. IRVT).

Ground motion prediction Ground motion prediction equations (GMPE). Analysis of uncertainties. Source - path - local effects.

Local site effects Geophysical and geotechnical site (MASW, CPT, ambient vibrations). Microzonation. Non-linear site response. Numerical modeling of site effects. Secondary phenomena (soil liquefaction, landslides).

Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment (PSHA) Seismic source zonation. Probability distributions of earthquake sizes and ground shaking levels. Time occurrence probability distributions of seismic events. Epistemic vs. aleatory uncertainties. Logic trees. Deaggregation of PSHA. Earthquake scenarios.

Seismic risk and building codes Ground shaking vs. structural damage. Design spectra. Uniform hazard spectrum.

 
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