CE 524   Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering

Fall 2007

 

Assignment

Assigned Date

Due Date

Solutions

Hmwk1

9/7

9/14

Partial solutions to Hmwk 1

Matlab Function for characteristic Earthquake Model: characteristic.m

Matlab Function for truncated Exponential Model: truncatedexp.m

Matlab function to generate plots in solution set: hmwk1.m

Hmwk2

 

Matlab Package

9/14

9/26

duhamel.m

Guidelines for constructing a spectrum

Matlab file for solution to Hmwk 2

Hmwk3

9/28

10/5

 

Hmwk 4

10/5

10/12

An excel file with all the NGA attenuation relationships

Hmwk 5

10/15

10/26

Solutions (for a slightly different assignment), see here

psha-02.xls

Hmwk 6

11/6

11/16

Srtutorial.m See this file first to learn how to do site response in matlab

Afactor.m Transfer function for a uniform, linear elastic damped soil over elastic bedrock.

Getfft.m  getifft.m  (These functions might be different than those in the package)

 

Matlab files for parametric study

 

Effects of nonlinearity (site response using shake with YBI as input motion)

 

Hmwk 7

11/6

11/26

Correlations for Gmax and Vs

Input Motion: Yerba Buena Island

Recorded motion at Treasure Island

 

Hmwk 8

11/30

12/7

SOLUTION for a slightly different problem [please do not look at solutions if you haven’t turned in your homework]

Slope Stability Homework

Not assigned

 

Solutions