A Comprehensive Study to Define Local Site Effects in Northern Ankara Turkey

2013-05-31
Eker, Arif Mert
Akgün, Haluk
Koçkar, Mustafa Kerem
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The study is mainly focused on the dynamic soil characterization and determination of site effects for the PlioQuaternary and especially alluvial soils of the Çubuk district and its close vicinity in Ankara. It was observed that the shear wave velocity values for the uppermost 30 meter of the soil profile is not adequate to classify the sites properly and these values could not be correlated with the H/V results obtained from the microtremor records due to the great thicknesses of the soft sediments. The high fundamental periods and the low amplification ratios of the fault controlled region show that a basin effect might be observed during a potential excitation especially at the center of the plain accompanied by the thick soft sediments. These results indicate that local soil classification procedure should not be implemented by relying only on the shallow geotechnical and geophysical field testing da
Dynamic soil characteristics, Site effect, microtremor, H/V, Çubuk district, Ankara
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/80300
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262567681_A_Comprehensive_Study_to_Define_Local_Site_Effects_in_Northern_Ankara_Turkey
SE-50EEE International Conference on Earthquake Engineering,(2013)
Department of Geological Engineering, Conference / Seminar

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A. M. Eker, H. Akgün, and M. K. Koçkar, “A Comprehensive Study to Define Local Site Effects in Northern Ankara Turkey,” presented at the SE-50EEE International Conference on Earthquake Engineering,(2013), Skopje, Makedonya, 2013, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/80300.
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