High-frequency filtering of strong-motion records |
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| Authors: | John Douglas David M Boore |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Structural Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32, 20133 Milan, Italy |
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| Abstract: | The influence of noise in strong-motion records is most problematic at low and high frequencies where the signal to noise
ratio is commonly low compared to that in the mid-spectrum. The impact of low-frequency noise (<1 Hz) on strong-motion intensity
parameters such as ground velocities, displacements and response spectral ordinates can be dramatic and consequentially it
has become standard practice to low-cut (high-pass) filter strong-motion data with corner frequencies often chosen based on
the shape of Fourier amplitude spectra and the signal-to-noise ratio. It has been shown that response spectral ordinates should
not be used beyond some fraction of the corner period (reciprocal of the corner frequency) of the low-cut filter. This article
examines the effect of high-frequency noise (>5 Hz) on computed pseudo-absolute response spectral accelerations (PSAs). In
contrast to the case of low-frequency noise our analysis shows that filtering to remove high-frequency noise is only necessary
in certain situations and that PSAs can often be used up to 100 Hz even if much lower high-cut corner frequencies are required
to remove the noise. This apparent contradiction can be explained by the fact that PSAs are often controlled by ground accelerations
associated with much lower frequencies than the natural frequency of the oscillator because path and site attenuation (often
modelled by Q and κ, respectively) have removed the highest frequencies. We demonstrate that if high-cut filters are to be used, then their corner
frequencies should be selected on an individual basis, as has been done in a few recent studies. |
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