IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jsusta/v14y2022i20p13668-d949728.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Assessment of a Fast Proxy of Vs30 (Vs30m)

Author

Listed:
  • Muhammad Saqlain

    (Department of Civil Engineering, National Central University, Zhongli District, Taoyuan City 320, Taiwan)

  • Umar Zada

    (Department of Civil Engineering, National Central University, Zhongli District, Taoyuan City 320, Taiwan)

  • Ghulam Muhammad

    (Department of Computer Engineering, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh 11543, Saudi Arabia)

  • Salman A. AlQahtani

    (Department of Computer Engineering, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh 11543, Saudi Arabia)

  • Zulfiqar Ali

    (School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK)

  • Wakeel Hussain

    (Department of Geological Resources and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China)

Abstract

The most frequent parameter used to quantify seismic site response in ground motion models is time-averaged shear wave velocity in the top 30 m of a site (Vs30), used by many engineering design codes and most recently by published empirical-scaling equations to estimate the amplitudes of strong ground motion. The current study explores the potential comparison of the results from the predictive equations and formula recommendations by the international building code. A total of 53 synthetic and real data models with distinct types of vs. profile were used to determine the theoretical dispersion curves and avoid forward and inverse modeling. In the prediction equation, VR36 and VR40 were employed to estimate Vs30. Furthermore, using VR40, based on the 53 different models, shows a good agreement with Vs30. The thickness of the first layer substantially affects the correlation. The findings calculated by the correlation are not in the acceptable zone for layer thicknesses of 10 < H < 20 m and thin layers at shallow depths with lower shear wave velocity.

Suggested Citation

  • Muhammad Saqlain & Umar Zada & Ghulam Muhammad & Salman A. AlQahtani & Zulfiqar Ali & Wakeel Hussain, 2022. "Assessment of a Fast Proxy of Vs30 (Vs30m)," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(20), pages 1-12, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:14:y:2022:i:20:p:13668-:d:949728
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/20/13668/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/20/13668/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:14:y:2022:i:20:p:13668-:d:949728. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.