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Influence of soft clays on the response spectra for structures in eastern Canada |
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| Authors: | Ren Tinawi Marc Sarrazin and Andr Filiatrault |
| Institution: | a Department of Civil Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique, PO Box 6079 Station A, Montreal, Canada, H3C 3A7 b SNC-LAVALIN, 485 McGill St, Montreal, Canada, H2Y 2H4 |
| Abstract: | The 1990 edition of the National Building Code of Canada (Associate Committee of the National Building Code, National Research Council, Ottawa, 1990) makes a clear distinction between eastern and western Canada in terms of seismic acceleration and velocity zones. While it is well established that ground motions can be amplified significantly through loose clay deposits, no results are available that take into consideration the typical high frequency content of ground motions in eastern Canada. This paper develops ground amplification curves for clays having depths between 10 and 70 m excited by typical eastern Canadian ground motions scaled to two different values of peak horizontal accelerations. Simplified free-field spectral design curves, which could be used by structural designers, are proposed. The curves show that maximum spectral accelerations occur for structural periods between 0.2 and 0.5 s. In addition, soil depth does not appear to be an important parameter controlling the response of typical clay deposits in eastern Canada. |
| Keywords: | response spectra clays eastern Canada earthquakes ground motions soils |
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