ShakyGround

Seismic codes are regulations which have been developed with the scope to provide a first guideline to the engineer for earthquake resistant design of ordinary buildings. Common standard response spectra like the US building code or the EC 8 (see Fig. 5) account in some way for the seismicity at or in the neighborhood of [...]

Event though peak ground acceleration is the most commonly used parameter used in seismic hazard analysis, it may happen that this value, taken by itself, becomes meaningless. The main reason resides in the fact, that the damage edifices may undergo during an earthquake, highly depend on the dominant frequency of the radiated wave and the [...]