Soil classifications for estimating site-dependent response spectra and seismic coefficients for building code provisions in western Kentucky

R. Street; E. Woolery; Z. Wang; I. E. Harik

doi:10.1016/s0013-7952(97)00010-0

Soil classifications for estimating site-dependent response spectra and seismic coefficients for building code provisions in western Kentucky

R. Street
, E. Woolery
, Z. Wang
, I. E. Harik

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One hundred thirty-four horizontally polarized shear-wave (SH) seismic soundings have been performed in the Jackson Purchase Region of western Kentucky. These data have been used to derive the thicknesses and shear-wave velocities for the various impedance horizons in the upper 30 m of the soil column at each site for the purposes of general land-use management and loss estimation in the event of an earthquake. A generalized seismic susceptibility soil classification scheme adopted by the Borcherdt (1994a,b) was fit to the results. Soils across western Kentucky were found to be either SC-II or SC-III soils, correlating to gravelly soils having soft to firm consistency and stiff clays to loose/dense sands, respectively.

Idioma original	English
Páginas (desde-hasta)	331-347
Número de páginas	17
Publicación	Engineering Geology
Volumen	46
N.º	3-4
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/s0013-7952(97)00010-0
Estado	Published - jul 15 1997

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Kentucky Department of Transportation under award no. P-173, the Kentucky Geological Survey, and the US Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, under award no. 1434-HQ-96-GR-02757. Equipment for the research was provided for, in part, by University of Kentucky Research Grant 7E-BE35-33. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors, and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the Kentucky Department of Transportation,

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This work was supported by the Kentucky Department of Transportation under award no. P-173, the Kentucky Geological Survey, and the US Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, under award no. 1434-HQ-96-GR-02757. Equipment for the research was provided for, in part, by University of Kentucky Research Grant 7E-BE35-33. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors, and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the Kentucky Department of Transportation,

Financiadores	Número del financiador
Kentucky Geological Survey
University of Kentucky Research Funds	7E-BE35-33
U.S. Department of the Interior	1434-HQ-96-GR-02757
U.S. Geological Survey
North Carolina Department of Transportation	P-173

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