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Correlation properties of integral ground‐motion intensity measures from Italian strong‐motion records

Huang, C; Tarbali, K; Galasso, C; (2020) Correlation properties of integral ground‐motion intensity measures from Italian strong‐motion records. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics 10.1002/eqe.3318. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

This study investigates the correlation properties of integral ground‐motion intensity measures (IMs) from Italian strong‐motion records. The considered integral IMs include 5–95% significant duration, Housner intensity, cumulative absolute velocity, and Arias intensity. Both IM spatial correlation and the correlation between different integral and amplitude‐based IMs (i.e., cross‐IM correlation) are addressed in this study. To this aim, a new Italian ground‐motion model (GMM) with spatial correlation for integral IMs is first introduced. Based on the newly developed GMM, the empirical correlation coefficients from interevent and intraevent residuals are investigated and various analytical correlation models between integral IMs and amplitude‐based IMs are proposed. The effective range parameter representing spatial correlation properties and the trend in the cross‐IM correlations are compared with existing models in the literature. The variability of the effective range parameters with respect to event‐specific features is also discussed. Modeling ground‐motion spatial and cross‐IM correlations is an important step in seismic hazard and risk assessment of spatially distributed systems. Investigating region‐specific correlation properties based on Italian strong‐motion records is of special interest as several correlation models have been developed based on global datasets, often lacking earthquakes in extensional regions such as Italy.

Type: Article
Title: Correlation properties of integral ground‐motion intensity measures from Italian strong‐motion records
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1002/eqe.3318
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1002/eqe.3318
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: correlation, ground‐motion models, integral intensity measures, Italian strong‐motion records
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Civil, Environ and Geomatic Eng
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10107691
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