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This study addresses the changes in acceleration, pore water pressure and Fourier spectrums of different types of seismic waves with various amplitudes via large-scale shaking table tests from two sites: a sand-containing regional site and an all-clay site. Comparative analyses of the test results show that the pore water pressures in sand-soil layers of the regional site initially increase and then decrease as the amplitudes of the seismic accelerations increase. The actions of the vertical and vibrational seismic waves contribute to greater pore water pressures. The amplification coefficient of the sand-layer regional site becomes smaller as the seismic waves grow stronger, so that both sites are capable of filtering high frequencies and amplifying low frequencies of seismic waves. This is more apparent with the increase in the peak value of the acceleration, and the natural vibration frequencies of both sites decrease with the transmission of the seismic waves from the basement to the ground surface. The decreasing frequency value of the sand-containing regional site is smaller than that of the all-clay site.
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Supported by: National Program on Key Basic Research Project (973 Program) under Grant No. 2011CB013606, Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University under Grant No. IRT13057, Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 51438004 and the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China under Grant No. 20124410110004
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Li, Y., Cui, J., Guan, T. et al. Investigation into dynamic response of regional sites to seismic waves using shaking table testing. Earthq. Eng. Eng. Vib. 14, 411–421 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11803-015-0033-2
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