Bengkulu City is an area in Indonesia that has a high seismic intensity. This very vulnerable to undergo earthquakes. Therefore, there necessity study the hazard assessment this area. paper presents vulnerability based on ground response analysis combined with probabilistic assessment. The soil profiles around are investigated using geophysical survey by microtremor and analysis. motion of soft...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the ability of various site‐condition proxies (SCPs) to reduce ground‐motion aleatory variability and evaluate how SCPs capture nonlinearity site effects. The SCPs used here are time‐averaged shear‐wave velocity in the top 30 m (VS30), the topographical slope (slope), the fundamental resonance frequency (f0) and the depth beyond which Vs exceeds 800 m/s (...

This paper presents a numerical analysis of the seismic behaviour of earth dams. Analysis is conducted for the solid phase. It may correspond to the response of the dam before water filling. Analysis is conducted for a simple case which concerns the elastic response of the dam. Numerical analyses are conducted using the FLAC3D program. The behaviour of the Shell and core of the dam and the foun...

Seismic-induced pore pressure and effective stresses in the saturated porous seabed under seismic loading are the main factors that govern the overall stability of submarine pipelines. In most of the previous investigations for the seismic-induced dynamic response around a submarine pipeline have been limited to two-dimension cases. In this paper, a three-dimensional finite element model includ...

The base level is among the effective parameters in determining the seismic force on a structure, if the equivalent-static method is used for analyzing a structure. It is obvious that the base level is located on foundation in buildings in which foundation is built in a single level and there is not any interaction between the structure's walls and the soil; however, in some buildings which hav...

The shallow tunnelling method (STM) is usually used to construct tunnels buried in soft ground. It consists of primary lining and secondary (tunnel). In the seismic design STM tunnels, it assumed that (tunnel) resistant all effects. However, soil–primary–secondary system may generate complex interaction phenomena during ground shaking. Compared with case where not considered, existence alters r...

Recent experimental research has shown that ordinary unbounded steel reinforced elastomeric bearings (SREBs) can be considered as an attractive cost-effective option for the seismic isolation of highway bridges. To further investigate its benefits, the current study is focused on the seismic risk assessment of an optimally designed highway bridge isolated by SREB system. A typical three-span hi...

Failure of the quay walls due to earthquakes results in severe economic loss. Because of hazards threatening such inexpensive nodes of national and international transportation networks, seismic design of quay walls is still an evolving topic in marine structural engineering. This study investigates the sensitivity of the gravity-type quay wall stability respect to uncertain soil and seismic pr...

In order to mobilize shallow soil to participate in the interaction of piled raft foundation sufficiently, the concept of piled raft has been modified to new type of foundation named composite piled raft. In the system of composite piled raft, the short piles made of flexible materials is used to strengthen the shallow soft soil, while the long piles made of relatively rigid materials is used t...