Site Response Characterization

It is well recognized that the seismic response of a site is strongly dependent on the local geological and geotechnical features of the ground profile. Several approaches are available to include site response effects in the hazard assessment. They are detailed in the following paragraphs but all of them require more or less in-depth knowledge of the geotechnical characteristics. Such knowledge can only be acquired through sit investigations. Therefore, a considerable amount of efforts has been devoted in SIGMA to investigating the reliability of several site investigation techniques, whose level of complexity depends on the choice of the site effect evaluation method; characterization is also mandatory to get the minimum information to choose the method itself.

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