AIM The aim of the present study was to evaluate reactive hops under systematically modified acceleration conditions. It was hypothesized that a high preactivity of the leg extensors and phase-specific adjustments of the leg muscle activation would compensate the alterations caused by the various acceleration levels in order to maintain a high leg stiffness, thus enabling the jumper to perform ...

This paper provides a methodology to quantify the interrelationship between the seismic intensity parameters and the structural damage. First, a computer-supported elaboration of the accelerograms provides several peak, spectral and energy seismic parameters. After that, nonlinear dynamic analyses are carried out to provide the structural response for a set of seismic excitations. Among the sev...

Seismic hazard assessment like many other issues in seismology is a complicated problem, which is due to a variety of parameters affecting the occurrence of an earthquake. Uncertainty, which is a result of vagueness and incompleteness of the data, should be considered in a rational way. Using fuzzy method makes it possible to allow for uncertainties to be considered. Fuzzy inference system,...

Failure of tailings dams can result in significant spill, loss human lives, and damages to the environment infrastructure. Cyclic loadings such as earthquakes blasting are among main threats stability dams. Seismic analyses further challenged by uncertainty variability properties. In this paper, influence input motion characteristics spatial coal (CT) properties on seismic a typical upstream-co...

To estimate the fault dimension of an earthquake in real time, we present a methodology to classify seismic records into near-source or far-source records. Characteristics of ground motion, such as peak ground acceleration, have a strong correlation with the distance from a fault rupture for large earthquakes. This study analyzes peak ground motions and finds the function that best classifies n...

Understanding strong ground motions in the near-fault areas is important for seismic risk assessment in densely populated areas. In the past, lack of information on strong ground motion for large and moderate earthquakes led to the use of mainly far field large and moderate earthquake records in equations for calculation of the strong ground motion parameters. In this article, we collected and ...

This study aims to identify optimal intensity measures (IMs) for use in probabilistic seismic demand models (PSDMs) circular tunnels soft soil deposits. To this end, we performed an extended numerical parametric involving two-dimensional time history analyses of selected soil-tunnel configurations evaluate the response under transverse shaking. A series 18 IMs were and tested, corresponding fre...