The research addressed here is devoted to the generation of seismic accelerograms compatible with a given response spectrum and other associated properties. The time sampling of the stochastic accelerogram yields a time series represented by a random vector in high stochastic dimension. The probability density function (pdf) of this random vector is constructed using the Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt...

This paper presents efficient models in the area of damage potential classification of seismic signals. After an earthquake, one of the most important actions that authorities must take is to inspect structures and estimate the degree of damages. The interest is obvious for several reasons such as public safety, economical recourses management and infrastructure. This approach provides a compar...

The recent development of wavelet analysis techniques has made it possible to represent the temporal variations of frequency content in an earthquake accelerogram elegantly. These techniques are more versatile than the other time-frequency localizing techniques due to their flexible time-frequency windowing feature. This development has led to the timeand frequency-based characterizations of gr...

Numerical analysis applied to the Beznar dam accelerograms (longitudinal and transversal components) shows that the Fourier amplítude spectrum is a good approxímatíon to the pseudo-velocíty spectra. Thís fact makes possible to use displacement ar velocíty seismograrns to generate acceleration of the ground in places where acceleration data are not avallable. Maximae accelerations determined nea...

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...