Soil Dynamics and Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering

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FIELD MONITORING AND SURVEYS  Microtremor measurements

 Site response surveys (HVSR, SSR, GIS) 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800

Promygdonian system

160m

225m 260m 287m

GPS 370m

sensor

Phase velocity dispersion curve of Rayleigh waves

1

1

10

SSR on earthquake/NS & EW components 10

Bedrock

408m

Survey deployment (circular array)

10

Frequency (Hz)

Amplification

recorder

HVSR ambient noise /NS component

Vs (m/sec)

Amplification

Mygdonian system

0m 35m

S-wave velocity profile with comparison to stratigraphy of the site

 Down-hole and Cross-hole surveys

Resonant frequency (Hz)

1

0.1

1

Frequency (Hz)

Survey deployement

0.30 - 0.39 Hz 0.40 - 0.50 Hz

S-part / EW component Coda part / EW component S-part / NS component Coda part / NS component

0.51 - 0.59 Hz 0.60 - 0.75 Hz 0.76 - 0.90 Hz 0.91 - 1.20 Hz 1.21 - 1.75 Hz > 1.75 Hz

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Spatial variation of the resonant frequency in Euroseistest

 Site response surveys (HVSR, SSR, GIS) Profitis

Stivos

P-w s

Survey deployment

ave

Source (hammer)

Recordings and dromochromic diagram of P- and S-waves, and Vp and Vs velocities Vs velocity (km/sec) 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0

1.0

0.02

0.9

0.04

0.8

0.06

0.7

0.08

Depth (km)

Phase velocity (km/sec)

 Multichannel Analysis of Surface Waves

0.6 0.5 0.4

0.16

0.2

Survey deployment

10

0.12 0.14

0.3

10-1

0.10

Period (sec)

100

Phase velocity dispersion curve of Rayleigh waves

0.18

S-wave velocity profile

Selected projects:

EUROSEISTEST • EUROSEISMOD • EUROSEISRISK • MERP • SRM-DGC • XSOILS

Selected publications:

• Raptakis D, Chávez-García FJ, Makra K, Pitilakis K, 2000. Site effects at Euroseistest Part I. Determination of the valley structure and confrontation of observations with 1D analysis, Soil Dyn. & Earthq. Eng., 19:1-22. • Manakou M, Raptakis D, Chavez-Garcia FJ, Apostolidis P, Pitilakis K, 2010. 3D soil structure of the Mygdonian basin for site response analysis. Soil Dyn. & Earthq. Eng., 30: 1198-1211.

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