AN OVERVIEW OF SEISMIC GROUND

MOTION DESIGN CRITERIA FOR

TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURES
IN USA

OLEH : A F I FAT U N NUR A I N I ( 1 4 1 9 1 0 3 0 1 1 1 6 )

 INTRODUCTION
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The state of the Seismic design for Not as mature as
practice of the railway infrastructures for highway and
generally follows the railway infrastructures,
seismic design for
Chapter 9 of the the seismic design
transportation guidelines of the criteria for ports
infrastructures is American Railway container wharves in
continually evolving. Engineering and USA are relatively
Maintenance-of- Way young and
Seismic design
criteria for highway
bridges

2.1 The AASHTO seismic design criteria

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The designed performance level corresponding to 7% probability of
exceedance in 75 years, or about 1 000 years return period, and shall be
characterized using an ARS curve and developed under the general procedure
is allowed for bridges.
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The site-specific ARS curve is to be developed for the site of either class A,
B, C, D or E, it shall not be lower than 2/3 of the ARS curve based on the
general procedure.
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The 2/3 of ARS curve of the class E site used as the baseline was
developed following the general procedure using the USGS free calculator by
inputting the class E site coordinates.
2.2 The caltrans seismic design criteria
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The caltrans seismic design criteria were applied to most highway bridges
in the state of california.

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The deterministic approach uses seismic sources including late quaternary
age faults with a total of 428 fault sections in california.
SEISMIC DESIGN FOR
R A I LWAY
INFRASTRUCTURES

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Railway bridges historically have performed well in
seismic events with little or no damage.
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A design example using the AREMA criteria is listed here.
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ARS curves are provided in the chapter 9 of the AREMA
and the Geotechnical engineers typically recommend sitespecific ARS curves
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The AREMA does not have a requirement on the lower
bound of an ARS curve from the site-specific procedure.
 S E I S M I C D E S I G N C R I T E R I A F O R P O RT
STRUCTURES
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The current practice of seismic design for piers and wharves differs
considerably from the conventional design of buildings or building-like structures.

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The three levels of design seismic events include an OLE, CLE, and DE.

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A design example is given as follows by using the port seismic design criteria
and in the probabilistic seismic hazard analysis, the NGA model was used.
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