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Liquefaction: Performance of Building Foundation Systems

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Building settlement on softened ground; Shallow-founded structures on liquefiable soils; Soil-structure-interaction on softened ground

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When founded on liquefiable ground, building response is commonly evaluated by the geotechnical engineer and structural engineer in a decoupled manner. The geotechnical engineer evaluates the potential for liquefaction triggering under a likely earthquake scenario (in most cases ignoring the presence of the structure), assesses the resulting building settlements, and typically designs a mitigation strategy to prevent liquefaction from occurring or to reduce settlements. On the other side, the structural engineer typically evaluates the seismic performance of the structure under fixed-base conditions (no soil-structure interaction considered), assuming that the liquefaction hazard is mitigated or bypassed. In performance-based structural design, the building performanceis evaluated in terms of critical engineering demand parameters...

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  1. Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA

    Shideh Dashti

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  1. Institute for Computer Science in Civil Engineering, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, University Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Michael Beer

  2. Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Ioannis A. Kougioumtzoglou

  3. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty and Centre for Engineering Sustainability, Liverpool, UK

    Edoardo Patelli

  4. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty and Centre for Engineering Dynamics, Liverpool, UK

    Siu-Kui Au

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Dashti, S. (2015). Liquefaction: Performance of Building Foundation Systems. In: Beer, M., Kougioumtzoglou, I.A., Patelli, E., Au, SK. (eds) Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35344-4_16

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