MCS‐Based PSHA Procedure and Generation of Site‐Specific Design Spectra for the Seismicity Characteristics of China

Research Article| September 04, 2018 MCS‐Based PSHA Procedure and Generation of Site‐Specific Design Spectra for the Seismicity Characteristics of China Xiao‐Lei Wang; Xiao‐Lei Wang aSchool of Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, P.O. Box 2546, 73 Huanghe Road, Nan’gang District, Harbin 150090, People’s Republic of China, ludagang@hit.edu.cn, wangxiaol72@163.com Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Da‐Gang Lu Da‐Gang Lu aSchool of Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, P.O. Box 2546, 73 Huanghe Road, Nan’gang District, Harbin 150090, People’s Republic of China, ludagang@hit.edu.cn, wangxiaol72@163.com Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Author and Article Information Xiao‐Lei Wang aSchool of Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, P.O. Box 2546, 73 Huanghe Road, Nan’gang District, Harbin 150090, People’s Republic of China, ludagang@hit.edu.cn, wangxiaol72@163.com Da‐Gang Lu aSchool of Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, P.O. Box 2546, 73 Huanghe Road, Nan’gang District, Harbin 150090, People’s Republic of China, ludagang@hit.edu.cn, wangxiaol72@163.com Publisher: Seismological Society of America First Online: 04 Sep 2018 Online Issn: 1943-3573 Print Issn: 0037-1106 © Seismological Society of America Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2018) 108 (5A): 2408–2421. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120170310 Article history First Online: 04 Sep 2018 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation Xiao‐Lei Wang, Da‐Gang Lu; MCS‐Based PSHA Procedure and Generation of Site‐Specific Design Spectra for the Seismicity Characteristics of China. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 2018;; 108 (5A): 2408–2421. doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120170310 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietyBulletin of the Seismological Society of America Search Advanced Search Abstract Since the approach of probabilistic seismic‐hazard analysis (PSHA) was proposed by Cornell (1968) and developed by McGuire (1976), the Cornell–McGuire method has been widely applied in many countries. However, the Cornell–McGuire seismic hazard assessment procedure cannot be directly used in China due to the spatially and temporally inhomogeneous nature of the seismicity of China. In addition, the commonly used PSHA procedure in China fails to provide the seismic hazard disaggregation (SHD) results that are needed in generating the conditional mean spectrum (CMS) for the specific building site of interest. To resolve this issue, theoretical characteristics of Chinese PSHA (⁠c‐PSHA⁠) are introduced and summarized in comparison with that for the Cornell–McGuire method. To facilitate the c‐PSHA approach more efficiently and accurately, the procedures for conducting c‐PSHA and SHD have been developed based on the Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) method. The proposed procedures are validated using the PSHA results based on the traditional numerical integral method. Using the developed c‐PSHA and SHD results, both horizontal and vertical site‐specific uniform hazard spectra (UHS) and CMS can be generated as target spectra for selecting ground motions to conduct nonlinear time‐history dynamic analysis of structures in China. As a case study, the proposed procedures are used to perform PSHA and SHD for a nuclear power plant site in China, along with the generated site‐specific UHS and CMS. You do not have access to this content, please speak to your institutional administrator if you feel you should have access.