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Engineering seismology - NDGF030

Title:	Inženýrská seismologie
Guaranteed by:	Department of Geophysics (32-KG)
Faculty:	Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual:	from 2016
Semester:	both
E-Credits:	3
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, English
Teaching methods:	full-time
Teaching methods:	full-time
Note:	you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester

Guarantor:	RNDr. Jan Burjánek, Ph.D.

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Annotation -

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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 -

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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 -

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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.

Teaching methods -

Last update: T_KG (29.03.2016)

Lecture

Syllabus -

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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.