NEXT GENERATION ATTENUATION RELATIONSHPS (NGA)
PROJECT WORKSHOP #5, March 24-25, 2004
PEER Center Headquarters
Building 451, Richmond Field Station
1301 South 46th Street, Richmond, California
AGENDA
March 24, 2004
8:30 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
9:15 a.m.
INTRODUCTION TO WORKSHOP
Maury Power
9:30 a.m.
NGA PROJECT REVIEW
Norm Abrahamson
10:00 a.m.
Coffee Break
10:20 a.m.
NGA GROUND MOTION DATA SET
Brian Chiou, Additional Metadata Development, QA Reviews, Content of Data Set.
11:25 a.m.
Norm Abrahamson, Working Group #1 Report on Evaluation of Data Processing for
Response Spectra
11:55 a.m.
Rob Graves, Working Group #1 Report on Evaluation of Near-Source Data Processing for
Static Displacement
12:15 p.m.
Lunch
1:15 p.m.
GROUND MOTION SCALING RELATIONS USING 1D ROCK MOTION
SIMULATIONS
Norm Abrahamson, Simulation Objectives and Simulation Analysis Matrix
1:30 p.m.
Paul Somerville, Yuehua Zeng, and Walt Silva, Validation of Simulation Methodologies
2:30 p.m.
Coffee Break
2:50 p.m.
Norm Abrahamson, Syntheses of Simulation Results and Recommendations for Predictor
Variables and Functional Forms
5:00 p.m.
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Magnitude Scaling
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Distance Scaling in Near Field and Far Field
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Long-Period Scaling (2 to 10 seconds)
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Directivity Effects
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Static Stress Drop Effects
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Buried vs. Shallow Faulting Effects
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Hanging Wall vs. Footwall Effects
Day 1 Adjournment
NEXT GENERATION ATTENUATION RELATIONSHPS (NGA)
PROJECT WORKSHOP #5, March 24-25, 2004
PEER Center Headquarters
Building 451, Richmond Field Station
1301 South 46th Street, Richmond, California
AGENDA
March 25, 2004
8:30 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m.
BASIN RESPONSE EFFECTS
Steve Day, Candidate Parameterization of Basin Response Effects on Ground Motion
Using 3-D Simulations
10:20 a.m.
Coffee Break
10:40 a.m.
MODEL OF SITE AMPLIFICATIONS USING SITE RESPONSE SIMULATIONS
Joseph Sun, Examination of Simulation Methodology
11:00 a.m.
Walt Silva, Currently Available Site Amplification Functions and Planned Modifications
11:30 a.m.
STATISTICAL MODELING OF DATA
Bob Youngs, Working Group #6, Statistical Tools for Use in Attenuation Relationship
Development
12:15 p.m. Day 2 Adjournment
Lunch
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