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Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Free Resources Display this book on your site! Related Titles Preventing Earthquake Disasters: The Grand Challenge in Earthquake Engineering:A Research Agenda for the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Improved Seismic Monitoring - Improved Decision-Making: Assessing the Value of Reduced Uncertainty Other Related Titles NCHRP Synthesis 428: Practices and Procedures for Site-Specific Evaluations of Earthquake Ground Motions (2012) National Cooperative Highway Research Program Synthesis Program (NCHRPSYN) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager Matasovic, Neven, Hashash, Youssef, Transportation Research Board. "NCHRP Committee for Project 20-05." NCHRP Synthesis 428: Practices and Procedures for Site-Specific Evaluations of Earthquake Ground Motions. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2012. Please select a format: Page 6   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore Page 6 NCHRP Synthesis 428 - Practices and Procedures for Site-Specific Evaluations of Earthquake Ground Motions (1-1) Transportation Research Board 2012 Executive Committee (2-2) Practices and Procedures for Site-Specific Evaluations of Earthquake Ground Motions (3-3) National Cooperative Highway Research Program (4-4) About the National Academies (5-5) NCHRP Committee for Project 20-05 (6-6) Preface (7-8) Contents (9-10) Summary (11-12) CHAPTER ONE - Introduction (13-14) Site Response Evaluation Approaches (15-15) Information Required for Site Response Analysis (16-17) Equivalent-Linear Site Response Analysis (18-19) Nonlinear Total Stress Site Response Analysis (20-22) Nonlinear Site Response Analysis with Pore Water Pressure Change (23-24) Software Used in Practice (25-26) Survey Respondents (27-27) Survey Responses (28-28) Dimensions, Analysis, and Model Type (29-29) Soil Profile Input Information Required for Site Response Analysis (30-30) Site Response Analysis (31-31) General Comments on the Survey (32-33) Suggestions for Further Research (34-36) References (37-43) Bibliography (44-48) Glossary (49-49) Appendix A - Survey Questionnaire (50-56) APPENDIX B - Compiled Survey Responses (57-86) APPENDIX C - Site Response Analysis Software - Software URLs, References, and Use in Highway Engineering Practice as Identified by Survey Respondents (87-90)

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NCHRP COMMITTEE FOR PROJECT 20-05 COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAMS STAFF CHRISTOPHER W. JENKS, Director, Cooperative CHAIR Research Programs CATHERINE NELSON CRAWFORD F. JENCKS, Deputy Director, Cooperative Oregon DOT Research Programs NANDA SRINIVASAN, Senior Program Officer MEMBERS EILEEN P. DELANEY, Director of Publications KATHLEEN S. AMES Maker Baker Jr., Inc. SYNTHESIS STUDIES STAFF STUART D. ANDERSON STEPHEN R. GODWIN, Director for Studies and Texas A&M University Special Programs CYNTHIA J. BURBANK JON M. WILLIAMS, Program Director, IDEA and PB Americas, Inc. Synthesis Studies BRIAN A. BLANCHARD JO ALLEN GAUSE, Senior Program Officer Florida DOT GAIL R. STABA, Senior Program Officer LISA FREESE DONNA L. VLASAK, Senior Program Officer Scott County (MN) Public Works Division TANYA M. ZWAHLEN, Consultant MALCOLM T. KERLEY DON TIPPMAN, Senior Editor Virginia DOT CHERYL KEITH, Senior Program Assistant RICHARD D. LAND DEMISHA WILLIAMS, Senior Program Assistant California DOT DEBBIE IRVIN, Program Associate JOHN M. MASON, JR. Auburn University TOPIC PANEL ROGER C. OLSON Minnesota DOT ABBAS ABGHARI, California Department of Transportation THOMAS COOLING, URS Corporation, St. Louis, MO ROBERT L. SACK TIMOTHY E. HUFF, Tennessee Department of Transportation New York State DOT G.P. JAYAPRAKASH, Transportation Research Board FRANCINE SHAW-WHITSON STEVEN L. KRAMER, University of Washington Federal Highway Administration NICOLAS LUCO, US Geological Survey, Golden, CO LARRY VELASQUEZ ELMER MARX, Alaska DOT and Public Facilities, Juneau JAVEL Engineering, LLC. JAMES STRUTHERS, Washington State Department of Transportation FHWA LIAISONS JUSTICE J.G. MASWOSWE, Federal Highway Administration, JACK JERNIGAN Baltimore, Maryland (Liaison) MARY LYNN TISCHER PHILIP YEN, Federal Highway Administration (Liaison) TRB LIAISON STEPHEN F. MAHER Cover figure: Damage to the Nimitz Freeway following the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake (courtesy of: Dr. Neven Matasovic). ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors would like to thank Mr. Byungmin Kim, graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana­Champaign, and Mr. Spencer Marcinek, Staff Engineer with Geosyntec Consultants, for their assis- tance during development drafts of this study. The authors would also like to thank Dr. Edward Kavazanjian, Jr., of Arizona State University and Dr. Sharid Amiri of Caltrans for their continuous support of this work and to Dr. Rodolfo Sancio of Geosyntec Consultants who peer- reviewed several drafts of this study.