Topographic effects on the seismic response of steep slopes

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America - Tập 87 Số 3 - Trang 701-709 - 1997
Scott A. Ashford1, Nicholas Sitar2, John Leth2, Nan Deng3
1Department of Applied Mechanics and Engineering Science University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California 92093-0085
2Department of Civil Engineering University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, California 94720
3Bechtel Corporation P.O. Box 193965 San Francisco, California 94119-3965

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Abstract

A frequency-domain parametric study using generalized consistent transmitting boundaries has been performed to evaluate the significance of topographic effects on the seismic response of steep slopes. The results show that the peak amplification of motion at the crest of a slope occurs at a normalized frequency H/λ = 0.2, where H is the slope height and λ is the wavelength of the motion. The importance of the natural site frequency is illustrated by the analysis of a stepped layer over a half-space. It was found that the natural frequency of the region behind the crest can dominate the response, relative to the topographic effect, for the conditions studied. Moreover, the effect of topography can be handled separately from the amplification due to the natural frequency of the deposit behind the crest of the slope. This concept of separating the amplification caused by topography from that caused by the natural frequency is advantageous to the development of a simplified method to estimate topographic effects.

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