Liquefaction Risk Assessment Using Geostatistics to account for Soil Spatial Variability

Liquefaction triggering assessments are often performed for individual locations, providing little information in regard to the expected spatial extent of liquefaction events. The present paper proposes a method to quantify the potential extent of liquefaction by accounting for spatial dependence of soil properties and potential future earthquake shaking. Random-field theory and geostatistics tools are used to model soil properties and earthquake shaking intensity; this approach facilitates incorporation of measurement results obtained at individual locations within the area of interest. An empirical liquefaction triggering criterion is then used to model liquefaction occurrence as a function of the random-field realizations. The framework components are briefly described and an example analysis is performed to illustrate the details of the approach. The area of liquefied soil under a building in Adapazari, Turkey, is considered in the example, conditional upon soil property measurements obtained from nearby standard penetration tests.

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• Authors:
  • Baker, Jack W
  • Faber, Michael H
• Publication Date: 2008-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Illustrations; References;
• Pagination: pp 14-23
• Serial:
  • Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
  • Volume: 134
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 1090-0241
  • Serial URL: http://ojps.aip.org/gto

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Earthquakes; Empirical methods; Geological phenomena; Liquefaction; Mathematical models; Random variables; Risk assessment; Soils; Soils by properties; Spatial analysis; Statistical analysis; Statistics
• Uncontrolled Terms: Geostatistics
• Geographic Terms: Adapazari (Turkey)
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Geotechnology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I42: Soil Mechanics;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01089152
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 27 2008 8:58AM