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In dry loose sand, seismic cyclic loads can result in contractive volumetric strains (seismic densification or compression) that can induce damages to structures, infrastructures and lifelines, accordingly with post-earthquake damages of past events. In the present work, a procedure has been adopted to define simplified charts to predict the possible effect of the seismic compression phenomenon in dry loose sand in terms of soil permanent settlements, to be applied in Seismic Microzonation (SM) studies in the perspective of seismic risk reduction. The adopted procedure estimates the volumetric strains starting from shear strains profiles calculated by parametric 1D site response analyses in which some key-parameters affecting the dry sand behaviour are varied: the relative density and shear wave velocity profile, thickness of the compressible sand layer and its non-linear behaviour, the depth of the seismic bedrock, the input motion amplitude and its frequency content. The proposed charts provide the estimation of settlements in function of the input PGA classes, depth of the compressible sand layer and relative density or, alternatively, shear wave velocity.
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This research was partially supported by the Italian Department for Civil Protection within the “PON Governance 2014-2020 project on the reduction of seismic, volcanic and hydrogeological risk for civil protection purposes - CIG 6980737E65 - CUP J59G16000160006”. Authors would like to thank F. Bramerini, S. Castenetto, A. Gorini G. Naso and D. Spina for the useful discussions.
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Fabozzi, S., Porchia, A., Fierro, T., Peronace, E., Pagliaroli, A., Moscatelli, M. (2020). Simplified Charts to Evaluate Settlements from Seismic Compression in Dry Loose Sand. In: Calvetti, F., Cotecchia, F., Galli, A., Jommi, C. (eds) Geotechnical Research for Land Protection and Development. CNRIG 2019. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering , vol 40. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21359-6_11
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