Publications associées à Sismographe

Analytical Studies in Support of an Improved Approach to the Design of Acceleration-Sensitive Nonstructural Elements

Dimitrios Lignos, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Elkady

This paper summarizes a series of analytical studies that were conducted in connection with an improved approach for the design of acceleration-sensitive nonstructural elements. In the new approach, bracing to secure nonstructural elements to the structure ...

Applied Technology Council, Sponse2022

Seismic vulnerability assessment of free-standing massive masonry columns by the 3D Discrete Element Method

Jinwoo Kim

Free-standing masonry column is a recurrent typology of built cultural heritage. Usually raised without seismic design, columns are subject to intense rocking and overturning under strong ground motions. In this paper, a strategy to assess their seismic vu ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2021

Three-dimensional fluid-driven stable frictional ruptures

Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion, Alexis Alejandro Sáez Uribe

We investigate the quasi-static growth of a fluid-driven frictional shear crack that propagates in mixed mode (II+III) on a planar fault interface that separates two identical half-spaces of a three-dimensional solid. The fault interface is characterized b ...

2022

Proof Of Concept Of A Graphene-Based Resonant Accelerometer

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Daniel Moreno Garcia

Acceleration measurements are fundamental in applications such as consumer electronics, navigation, automotive safety and Internet of things (IoT). In comparison with capacitive or piezoresistive MEMS accelerometers, resonant graphene accelerometers have t ...

IEEE2021

Seismic design of non-dissipative embedded column base connections

Dimitrios Lignos, Hiroyuki Inamasu

Embedded Column Base (ECB) connections in seismically resistant steel moment frames are commonly designed to be stronger than the connected column, to protect them from inelastic actions. This relies on estimation of demands induced by the column and the s ...

2021

Seismic response of RC buildings subjected to fling-step in the near-fault region

Pierino Lestuzzi, Amin Karbassi

Fling-step and forward directivity are the major consequences of near-fault ground motions as they can impose unexpected seismic demands on structures located in the vicinity of the fault. The pernicious effect of forward directivity on the seismic behavio ...

2020

Quantifying the out-of-plane response of unreinforced masonry walls subjected to relative support motion

Katrin Beyer, Michele Godio

The supports of out-of-plane loaded unreinforced masonry walls in buildings are subjected to a motion that is filtered and amplified by the building structure and, in some cases, can be significantly different from the ground motion. Moreover, because thes ...

2019

Evaluation of force-based and displacement-based out-of-plane seismic assessment methods for unreinforced masonry walls through refined model simulations

Katrin Beyer, Michele Godio

The performance of force-based and displacement-based seismic assessment methods for the life-safety limit state check of out-of-plane loaded unreinforced masonry walls is evaluated on the basis of refined numerical simulations. For this purpose, a discret ...

2018

A methodology to detect and locate low-permeability faults to reduce the risk of inducing seismicity of fluid injection operations in deep saline formations

Lyesse Laloui, Victor Vilarrasa Riano

Fluid injection in the subsurface has significantly increased over the last decades. Fluid injection causes pressure buildup, which reduces effective stresses and thus, shear failure conditions may eventually occur, inducing microseismic and seismic events ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2017

The seismic stability and ductility of steel columns interacting with concrete footings

Dimitrios Lignos, Hiroyuki Inamasu

First-story columns in steel moment resisting frames are subjected to various forms of geometric instabilities during earthquakes. These instabilities have the potential to seriously compromise structural performance, and expedite structural collapse. In t ...

American Institute of Steel Construction2017

Seismic Simultaneous Source Separation via Patchwise Sparse Representation

Pascal Frossard, Yiren Zhou

The concept of simultaneous source has recently become of interest in seismic exploration, due to its efficient or economic acquisition or both. The blended data overlapped between shot records are acquired in simultaneous source acquisition. Separating th ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

Seismic Behavior of Poorly Detailed RC Bridge Piers

Pia Hannewald

Existing bridges may have been designed and constructed according to codes without any provisions for seismic design and detailing. Particularly in countries with moderate seismicity, such as Switzerland, modern seismic design standards might have been int ...

EPFL2013

Ambient seismic noise monitoring of a clay landslide: Toward failure prediction

Michel Jaboyedoff, Cornelia Sara Brönnimann, Clément Michoud

Given that clay-rich landslides may become mobilized, leading to rapid mass movements (earthflows and debris flows), they pose critical problems in risk management worldwide. The most widely proposed mechanism leading to such flow-like movements is the inc ...

2012

Coupled seismogenic geohazards in Alpine regions

Lyesse Laloui, Pierino Lestuzzi, Alessio Ferrari, Fabrice Dupray, Cyrill Silvan Baumann, Clotaire Michel, Amin Karbassi

COupled seismogenic GEohazards in Alpine Regions (COGEAR) is an interdisciplinary natural hazard project investigating the hazard chain induced by earthquakes. It addresses tectonic processes and the related variability of seismicity in space and time, ear ...

2012

Seismic vulnerability assessment to slight damage based on experimental modal parameters

Clotaire Michel

The aim of this paper is to adjust behaviour models for each class of structure for vulnerability assessment by using ambient vibration. A simple model based on frequencies, mode shapes and damping, taken from ambient vibrations, allows computation of the ...

2012

Fatigue analysis of unanchored steel liquid storage tank shell-to-base connections during earthquake induced uplift

Alain Nussbaumer, Gary Scott Prinz, Gustavo Cortes

During severe seismic events the base of unanchored steel liquid-storage tanks can uplift, causing large inelastic rotation demands at the shell-to-base connections. With repeated cycles of uplift, these shell-to-base connections are susceptible to low-cyc ...

2012

Development and application of damage spectra for RC buildings in Europe

Pierino Lestuzzi, Amin Karbassi

Damage spectra for existing reinforced concrete buildings in Europe are presented in this paper. To this end, a series of time-history nonlinear dynamic analyses for single-degree-of-freedom systems with different deformation ductility values and yielding ...

2012

Development and Application of Damage Spectra to Evaluate the Seismic Performance of Reinforced Concrete Buildings in Greece

Pierino Lestuzzi, Amin Karbassi

Damage spectra for reinforced concrete buildings in Greece are presented in this paper based on a series of time-history nonlinear dynamic analyses for single-degree-of-freedom systems (Clough hysteresis model) with different deformation ductility and yiel ...

2011

Comparison between seismic vulnerability models and experimental dynamic properties of existing buildings in France

Pierino Lestuzzi, Clotaire Michel

Elastic fundamental frequency is a key-parameter of simplified seismic design and vulnerability assessment methods. Empirical relationships exist in codes to estimate this frequency but they miss experimental data to validate them accounting for national f ...

Springer Netherlands2010

Measurement of sound speed vs. depth in South Pole ice for neutrino astronomy

Xiaoxia Bai

We have measured the speed of both pressure waves and shear waves as a function of depth between 80 and 500 m depth in South Pole ice with better than 1% precision. The measurements were made using the South Pole Acoustic Test Setup (SPATS), an array of tr ...

2010