《PROCEEDINGS OF THE SEVENTH WORLD CONFERENCE ON EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING VOLUME 2 GEOSCIENCE ASPECTS》

TABLE OF CONTENTS1

A VELOCITY TYPE STRONG MOTION SEISMOGRAPH WITH WIDE FREQUENLY AND DYNIMIC RANGE Ikuei Muramatu1

U．S．STRONG MOTION PROGRAMS R．D．Borcherdt,R．B．Matthiesen9

A METHOD FOR NUMERICAL CALCULATION OF DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS CONVERSION OF SEISMOMETERS Yutaka Nakamura17

SAMPLING AND INTERPOLAtion OF STRONG MOTION ACCELLEROGRAMS Arturo Arias,Horacio Sandoval25

RANDOM DIGITIZATION ERRORS AND RELIABILITY OF FOURIER SPECTRA OF STRONG-MOTION ACCELEROGRAMS Arturo Arias,Horacio Sandoval33

RECENTLY DEVELOPED STRONG MOTION EARTHQUAKE INSTRUMENTS ARRAY IN JAPAN Syun'itiro Omote,Kyoiti Ohmatsuzawa,Tokiharu Ohta41

INSTRUMENT ARRAYS FOR A NEAR FIELD STRONG MOTION EARTHQUAKE SURVEY IN ITALY S．Polinari49

A METHODOLOGY FOR LOCATING STRONG MOTION ARRRAYS F．E．Udwadia,H．Miura55

ON-LINE CONTROL OF THE SINGLE COMPONENT SHAKING TABLE M．Simova,D．Namu？evski63

METHOD AND RESULTS OF THE STRONG MOTION MODELLING THE GAZLY EARTHQUAKE OF MAY 17,1976 J．Kopnichev,I．Nersesov,G．Shpilker70

EARTHQUAKE ENVIRONMENT SIMULATION BY PULSE GENERATORS S．F．Masri,F．B．Safford73

A MECHANICAL MODEL FOR THE GENERATION OF ARTIFICIAL SEISMOGRAMS Andrej Umek81

GROUND RESPONSE IN THE SALT LAKE CITY-OGDEN-PROVO,UTAH,URBAN CORRIDOR Walter W．Hays,Robert D．Miller,Kenneth W．King89

ANALYSES ON SEISMIC GROUND MOTION PARAMETERS INCLUDING VERTICAL COMPONENTS Yorihiko Ohsaki,Makoto Watabe,Ma？anobu Tohdo97

NEW AUTOMATIC TRAIN STOPPING SYSTEM DURING EARHQUAKE Toshiro Fujiwara,Yutaka Nakamura105

AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH TO MODELING EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTION ATTENUATION IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES Ronald T．Eguchi113

TIME OF MAXIMUM RESPONSE OF SINGLE-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM OSCILLLATOR TO EARTQUAKE EXCITATION V．W．Lee121

AN ISOSEISMAL-ENERGY CORRELATION FOR USE IN EARTHQUAKE STRUCTURAL DESIGN S．f．Borg．125

INSTRUMENTAL MEASUREMENT OF NATURAL VIBRATION PERIODS OF SOME HIGH-RISE REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDINGS IN ISTANBuL REGION Alkut AyTun127

SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS OF NEAR SOURCE STRONG GROUND MOTION Jeff A．Johnson131

ACCELEROGRAM,INTENSITY,DAMAGE;A NEW CORRELATION FOR USE IN EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING DESIGN S．F．Borg135

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SITE DEPENDENT EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE ANALYSES TIME-HISTORY VERSUS SMOOTH ROSPONSE SPECTRUN Fred A．Webster,Jack R．Benjamin,Charles A．Kircher138

EFFECTS OF SITE GEOLOGY ON AMPLITUDES OF STRONG MOTION M．D．Trifuna？145

EFFECTS OF CANYON TOPOGRAPHY ON DYNAMIC SOIL-BRIDGE INTERACTION FOR INCIDENT PLANE S？ WAVES Jorge A．Esquival Francisco J．Sanchez-Sesma153

EFFECT OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL TOPOGRAPHY ON EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTION Liao Zhenpeng,Yang Baipo,Yuan Yifan161

INFLUENCE OF GEOLOGICAL SOIL PROFILES ON THE AMPLITUDE OF SEISMIC WAVES G．Grünthal,P．Bormann169

EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTIONS INFLUENCED BY IRREGULARITIES OF SUB-SURFACE TOPOGRAPHIES Kojiro Irikura175

EFFECTS OF SEISMIC AND GEOTECHNICAL CONDITIONS ON MAXIMUM GROUND ACCELERATIONS AND RESPONSE SPECTRA Toshio Iwasaki,Kazuhiko Kawashima,Mitsuaki ？aeki183

A SINGLE DEGREE OF FREEDOM MODEL FOR NON-LINEAR SOIL AMPLIFICATION M．Erdik191

EFFECTS OF LOCAL SITE CONDITIONS ON DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS DURING AN EARTHQUAKE Junichi Shibuya,Hideki Kimura,Toahio Shiga199

THE EFFECTS OF ELEVATION AND SITE CONDITIONS ON GROUND MOTION OF THE FERNANDO,CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE,9 F？RUARY 1971 F．K．Chang207

DESIGN FOR SPATIAL GROUND MOTIONS B．Sandi215

ON NON STATIONARY CHARACTERISTICS ACCELEROGRAMS IN OSAKE PLAIN Yoshihiro Takeuchi223

SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS OF HARD ROCK MOTIONS Y．Ohsaki,Y．Sawada,K．Hayashi,B．Ohmura,C．Kumagai231

ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF ACCELEROGRAMS RECORDED ON BEDROCK NEAR ORIGINS Y．Sawada,S．Sasaki,H．Yajima,N．Yoshioka,A．Sakurai T．Takahashi239

ACCELERATION AND VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION OF THE VRANCEA MARCH 4,1977 EARTHQUAKE DETERMINED BY THE RESPONSE OF THE RIGID BODIES M．Stojkovic,H．Kap■arov,S．Galbov247

EFFECTS OF THE GROUND CONDITION ON DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF STRUCTURES Shintaro Ohba251

INFLUENCE OF SOME SOIL PARAMETERS ON THE MODIFYING EFFECT OF LOCAL SOIL CONDITIONS H．Boncheva255

ISOSEISMAL MAP IN NEAR-FIELD WITH REGARD TO FAULT RUPTURE AND SITE GEOLOGICAL CONDITIONS Saburoh Midorikawa,Hiroyoshi Kobayashi259

THE DURATION OF STRONG MOTION AND ITS DEPENDENCE ON THE RECORDING SITE GEOLOGY Bruce D．Westermo263

RISK OPTIMIZATION CONSIDERING VIBRATIONAL BEHAVIOUR OF SUBSOIL H．Tiedemann267

REPRESENTING EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTIONS FOR DESIGN Erik H．Vanmarck271

UNIFORM PROBABILITY RESPONSE SPECTRA FOR A SITE NEAR THE SAN ANDREAS FAULT Rondall D．Wheaton,R？nald M．Polivka279

SIMULATION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL EARTHQUAKE GROEND MOTIONS ALONG PRINCIPAL AXES Makoto Watabe,Ryoji Iwasaka,Masanobu Tohdo Izuru Ohkawa287

SIMULATED EARTHQUAKE MOTIONS SCALED FOR MAGNITUDE,DISTANCE AND LOCAL SOIL CONDITIONS Hiroyuki Kameda,Masata Sugito,Tadafumi Asamura295

DEVELOPMENT OF THE SEISMIC INPUT FOR USE IN THE SEISMIC SAFETY MARGINS RESEARCH PROGRAM D．L．Bernreuter,D．H．Chung303

AN APPROACH TO SIMULATE A LARGE LARGE SET OF MULTICORRELATED RANDOM PROCESSES Tatsuo Ohmachu,Yoshiaki Kimura311

THE GENERATION OF ARTIFICIAL ACCELEROGRAMS BY SUPERPOSITION OF SINUSOIDAL WAVES OF RANDOM DURATION Muzaffer Ipek319

SITE-DEPENDENT EARTHQUAKE SIMULATION Zeki Hasgür327

GENERATION OF SYNTHETIC EARTHQUAKE MOTIONS AND THEIR APPLICATION TO DYNAMIC RESPONSE ANALYSES Tetsuo kubo,Norio Suzuki333

STOCHASTIC FUNCTIONS IN EARTHQUAKE OCCURRENCE MODELS:A CRITICAL SURVEY Nicola Pacilio,Mauro Basili341

A PROBABILISTIC MODEL FOR GROUND MOTION SPECTRA BASED ON RMS ACCELERATION Martin W．Mc Cann,Haresh C．Shah,Robert J．Geller349

EFFECTS GROUND MOTION DURATION UPON EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE OF STRUCTURE Sumio Nagahashi357

DESTRUCTIVE CAPABILITY OF EXTREME EARTHQUAKE MOTIONS EXAMINED IN TWO DIMENSIONS OF HORIZONTAL PLANE H．Takizawa365

NEAR FIELD GROUND MOTION V．V．Shteinberg,Yu．K．Chernov,T．G．Ivanova373

WAVE PROPAGATION METHOD OF SITE SEISMIC RESPONSE BY VISCO-ELASTOPLASTIC MODEL Wang Zhiliang,Han Qingyu,Zhou Genshou379

RESPONSE SPECTRA OF EVOLUTIONARY EARTHQUAKE MODELS P-T．D．Spanos387

ON THE DETERMINATION OF DISPLACEMENT FROM STRONG MOTION ACCELEROGRAMS V．M．Grazier391

AN ANALYSIS OF ACCELEROGRAM AND RESPONSE PEAKS USING THE EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION Theodore C．Zsutty,Milton A．DeHerrera395

ON GROUND MOTIONS OF LONGER PERIODS IN STRONG EARTHQUAKES Yoshimasa Kobayashi,Toshiro Fujiwara399

DISTANCE PARTITIONING IN ATTENUATION STUDIES John A．Blume403

EVALUATION OF POTENTIAL DESTRUCTIVENESS FROM RECORDED STRONG MOTION ACCELEROGRAMS T．Minami,Y．Sonoda,Y．Osawa411

PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS OF JAPANESE ACCELEROGRAMS AND COMPARISONSWITH U．S．STRONG MOTION DATA C．B．Crouse,B．E．Turner419

ESTIMATION OF THE EXPECTED NEAR-FIELD MAXIMUM VELOCITY ON BEDROCK Katsuhiko Ishida427

GEOPHYSICAL ESTIMATES OF SEISMIC SHEAR WAVE MOTION Robin K．McGuire435

ON THE NEAR FIELD EARTHQUAKE MOTION IN INTRAPLATE ENVIRONMENTS Dimitri Papastamatiou443

GROUND MOTION IN THE EPICENTRAL REGION OF THE MAY 6,1976 FRIULI EARTHQUAKE IN NORT？ ITALY Dimitri Papastamatiou,Margaret Asgian451

STUDY ON DYNAMIC GROUND CHARACTERISTICS IN RANGE OF SHORT AND LONG PREIODS Yoshikazu Kitagawa,Yutaka Matsushima459

STOCHASTIC APPROACH ON IDEALIZED MODEL OF EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTION Masahiro Kawano467

OBSERVATION OF EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE OF GROUND WITH HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL SEISMOMETER ARRAYS Hajime Tsuchida,Setsuo Noda,Susumu Iai,Eiichi Kurata475

CAPACITY OF STRONG GROUND MOTION TO CAUSE STRUCTURAL DAMAGE R．Arava,G．R．Saragoni483

GAUSSIAN PROPERTIES OF EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTION G．R．Saragoni,R．Alarcon,J．Crempien491

A STI？Y ON THE CONTRIBUTION OF SURFACE WAVES TO STRONG GROUN？ MOTIONS Kazuyoshi Kudo499

THE SEISMO-GECLOGICAL BACKGROUND AND THE EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE OF TYPICAL STRUCTURES IN BEIJING Zhou Xiyuan,Tung Jingzheng,Fu Sheng cong,Zhang Zaimin507

MODEL OF NONSTATIONARY SEISMIC PROCESS V．T．Rasskazovsky,I．H．Aliev515

ATTENUATION OF INTENSITIES IN INDIA Umesh Chandra521

STUDY OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF STRONG MOTION FOURIER SPECTRA ON BEDROCK Katsuhiko Ishida525

NEW BASE-LINE CORRECTION METHOD FOR GROUND MOTION DATA J．M．Mulay,U．S．Kumar529

STRONG MOTION INVESTIGATIONS IN THE CENTRAL UNITED STATES Rob？rd B．Herrmann,Otto W．Nuttli533

A MEASURE OF DURATION OF STRONG GROUND MOTION Erik H．Vanmarcke,Shih-Sheng P．Lai537

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN AUTOMATIC DIGITIZATION OF ANALOG FILM RECORDS M．D．Trifunac545

A COMPARISON OF STRONG MOTION EARTHQUAKE DATA BANKS FOR JAPAN AND THE WESTERN UNITED STATES Donald E．Hudson553

EVOLUTIONARY SPECTRA FOR STRONG MOTION ACCELLEROGRAMS George C．Liang,C．Martin Duke561

ON THE CHINESE SEISMIC INTENSITY SCALE Liu Huixian569

ON THE ATTENUATION OF PEAK VELOCITY David M．Boore577

GROUND MOTION INTENSITY BASED ON EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS ON HISTORICAL MONUMENTS Chik-Sing Yim,Joseph Penzien,Anil K．Chopra585

A THEORETICAL EARTHQUAKE MODEL TO COMPLEMENT EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF STRONG GROUND MOTION ATTENUATION Jean Savy,C．Allin Cornell593

PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF STRONG MOTION RECORDS OF THE TANGSHAN601

EARTHQUAKE AND ITS AFTERSHOCKS Guo Yuxue,Peng Kezhong601

CHARACTERISTICS OF STRONG EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTION IN THE PERIOD RANGE FROM 1 TO 15 SECONDS Teiji Tanaka,Shizuyo Yoshizawa,Yutaka Osawa609

THE ATTENUATION CHARACTERISTICS OF NEAR FIELD GROUND MOTION DUE TO STRIKE SLIP FAULT MOTION S．Yoshikawa,Y．T．Iwasaki,M．Tai,A．Kowada617

A COMPARISON OF GROUND RESPONSE IN THE LOS ANGELES REGION FROM NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS AND THE 1971 SON FERNANDO EARTHQUAKE A．M．Rogers,P．A．Covington,R．D．Borcherdt625

REFINEMENTS IN CHARACTERIZING GROUND MOTIONS H．Sandi633

RELATION BETWEEN THE FORMATION OF SOIL LAYERS AND THE VIBRATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE GROUND Morio Takeuchi,Takaki Morioka,Makato Yamada637

INFLUENCE OF THE UNDERGROUND WATER OSCILLATION UPON THE AMPLITUDES AND PERIODS OF THE GROUND MICROSEISMIC NOISE M．Stojkovic,D．Aleksovski641