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Microzonation in Wind Engineering
Journal of the Structural Division, 1979The writers indicate a direction for the improvement of the wind design of structures. The direction involves the extension of previous wind speed mapping procedures to incorporate local meteorological conditions in the development of a wind speed map for a local geographic region.
Marshall Lew, Gary C. Hart
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Cluster Analysis to Support Microzonation Studies
Proceedings, 2015In recent times the use of microtremor techniques for subsoil investigation increased significantly. The use of HVSR (Horizontal to Vertical Spectral Ratio)technique for seismic microzoning studies allows in many case to obtain detailed reconstruction of the roof of the seismic bedrock and to identify areas with similar seismic behaviour. Two different
CAPIZZI, Patrizia +4 more
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Seismic microzonation of Kolkata
Geomechanics and Engineering, 2015This paper presents the probabilistic seismic microzonation of densely populated Kolkata city, situated on the ...
Amit Shiuly, R.B. Sahu, Saroj Mandal
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Earthquake Microzoning from Soil Properties
Earthquake Spectra, 1993The extent of damage caused by an earthquake in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1968 to buildings erected on a variety of regoliths and foundation materials is correlated with the thickness of the regolith, the depth to the water table and semi-quantitative parameters derived from soil profile descriptions, particularly related to soil type and soil ...
A. P. W. Hodder, M. Z. Graham
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Microzonation for Urban Planning
2009Microzonation is identification of areas having different earthquake hazard potentials and will primarily serve for urban planning and land use management. The two principal factors controlling earthquake loss are site response and structural features.
Atilla Ansal +2 more
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Seismic microzonation in Australia
Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2000Abstract Since the 1980s seismic microzonation studies have been undertaken in Australia to assess the likely effects of earthquakes on urban centres built on unconsolidated sediments. Presently the Nakamura method is used for processing data. So far parts of Perth, Adelaide, Cairns, Gladstone, Rockhampton, Newcastle, Sydney and Launceston have been
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Microzonation for Earthquake Scenarios
2010Seismic microzonation involves generation of seismic hazard maps with respect to estimated ground motion characteristics on engineering bedrock outcrop based on a regional seismic hazard study compatible with the scale of the microzonation. A grid system is implemented dividing the investigation area into cells according to the availability of ...
Atilla Ansal +2 more
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Seismic Microzonation of the Cassino Plain
2014Thanks to its favourable hydrogeological conditions, Cassino is one of the most studied sites of Central Italy. More than two hundred soil borings, some of them reaching depths as high as 100 m, have revealed a subsoil characterized by a calcareous platform and post-orogenetic series forming a tectonic basin filled by lacustrine and volcanic deposits ...
Albano Matteo +5 more
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Multihazard Analysis: Istanbul Microzonation Projects
2023Istanbul is located one of the most seismically active regions of the earth. For this reason the city has suffered damage due to earthquakes in its historical process. Three of them, occurring in 1509, 1766, 1894 respectively,    seriously affected Istanbul and caused great loses around the city during the Ottoman period ...
Sema Kara +5 more
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Complex Terrain Extreme Wind Microzonation
Structures 2001, 2001The study of surface wind field may provide the primary input for decision-making in extreme wind simulation, structural design improvement, the understanding of wind induced structural vibration, and many other applications. The numerical model used in the study is a three-dimensional mass-consistent kinematic flow model. The major elements considered
Edmond D. H. Cheng, Jie Shang
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