Engineering Analysis of Near-Source Strong Ground Motion

Dear Colleagues,

In the last twenty years we have seen significant advances in the acquisition, archival, and dissemination of strong motion waveforms, which are of paramount importance in defining earthquake ground shaking scenarios and the seismic input for earthquake engineering applications.

The analysis of seismic waveforms recorded in the epicentral area of moderate-to-strong earthquakes has enabled a more careful characterization of near-source ground motion and its potential impact on structures.

Stimulated by the continuously increasing computational resources, numerical simulations of earthquake ground shaking have emerged as a complementary approach to investigate key features of near-fault ground motions, such as directivity and directionality effects, velocity pulses, fling-step, and spatial variability, which cannot be fully captured by recordings because of their still limited number or unsuitable data processing.

The growing availability of both observed and simulated ground-motions opens new perspectives in the field of Engineering Seismology, with important implications for seismic hazard and risk analyses, emergency planning, and definition of seismic actions for design.

This Special Issue of Geosciences welcomes original research contributions, reviews, case studies, or technical notes on the following topics:

• Lessons learnt from recent strong earthquakes;
• Numerical simulations of earthquake ground motion in the near-source region;
• Advanced approaches for strong motion waveform processing;
• Engineering characterization of near-fault ground motion from recordings and simulations;
• Attenuation models for near-source earthquake ground motion;
• Spatial correlation of ground motion intensity measures;
• Spatial coherence of ground motion waveforms from dense arrays;
• Seismic analysis of engineered systems subject to near-fault motions.

Dr. Maria D'Amico
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Chiara Smerzini
Guest Editors

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