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Verification of a new method for evaluation of liquefaction potential analysis

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The seismic response of existing earth dams in Iran is important after an earthquake both to provide emergency supplies and to society as well as to ensure structural safety in engineering terms. Better seismic capacity of earth dam results in less structural damage and reduced impacts following an earthquake disaster. Indirect as well as direct costs following earthquakes have gained much attention from both the engineering and socioec onomic research communities in the last few decades. This study is a valuable tool used to study the response of geotechnical structures to infrequent or extreme events such as earthquakes. The Avaj earthquake (2002, Iran) was applied to a series of model tests which was conducted to study the response of soil profiles under seismic loading. The acceleration records at different locations within the soil bed and at its surface along with the settlement records at the surface were used to analyze the soil seismic response. A combination of several software packages with a generated visual user interface computer code by authors named as “Abbas Converter” were employed to evaluate the variation of shear modulus and dam** ratio with shear strain amplitude to assess their effects on site response. The proposed method was applied to the Korzan earth dam of Hamedan province in Iran. Site response analysis using the measured shear wave velocity, estimated modulus reduction, and dam** ratio as input parameters produced good agreement with the computed site response in this study.

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  1. Department of Geophysics, Islamic Azad University, Hamedan Branch, Hamedan, Iran

    Abbas Abbaszadeh Shahri & Roshanak Rajablou

  2. Department of Physics, Islamic Azad University, Shahr-e-Rey Branch, Hamedan, Iran

    Katayoun Behzadafshar

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Abbaszadeh Shahri, A., Behzadafshar, K. & Rajablou, R. Verification of a new method for evaluation of liquefaction potential analysis. Arab J Geosci 6, 881–892 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-011-0348-x

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