Simplified procedures are commonly employed to estimate seismic displacements of earth and waste fills. The landmark work of Makdisi and Seed (1978) has been widely adopted in practice. Although this work is widely used, it has a number of significant limitations such as decoupling the sliding block analysis from the seismic response analysis, use of a limited number of recorded earthquake moti...

As ice retreated from southern coastal Maine from 15,000 to 13,000 years ago, the ocean inundated coastal areas where the earth’s crust had been temporarily depressed by the weight of glacial ice. A thick veneer of glacial-marine clay and silt – the Presumpscot Formation – was deposited in coastal Maine lowlands. Due to its fine-grained character, shear waves from seismic events travel slowly t...

Two new, highly efficient single-parameter seismic intensity measures (IMs), one structure-specific and structure-independent, are proposed for use on both bare infilled reinforced concrete frames. The efficiency of these IMs has been evaluated along with the several other parameters over a group 1568 ability investigated to predict damage is basis correlation between damage, dispersion this co...