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Title:

SITE-CLASSIFICATION - Characterization of site conditions in Greece for realistic seismic ground motion simulations: pilot application in urban areas
Date: 2012 – 2015
Active: No
Organisation: European Social Fund–ESF & Greek national funds - Operational Program "Education and Lifelong Learning" of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) - Research Funding Program: Thales
Partners: Aristotle Univ. Thessaloniki-Dep. Of Geology, EPPO-ITSAK, Democritus Univ. of Thrace-Dep. Of Civil Engineering
Co-ordinator: A. Kiratzi (Aristotle Univ. Thessaloniki, Dep. of Geology)
Project Manager: Nikolaos Theodoulidis
description:

The aim of this (http://asterix.ad.itsak.gr/flexviewers/THALES_SC/) THALIS project is two-fold:

(a) the characterization and classification of site conditions in Greece using geology and geophysics and

(b) the simulation of strong ground motions from earthquake scenarios in selected urban regions taking into account site-effect. The shallow (up to 30m) shear-wave velocities, Vs30 will be used as a proxy to classify site conditions.

The data will come from two sources:

  • From previously collected geologic and geotechnical data, which will be organized in a single database and
  • From field measurements at selected sites with known geology, applying Seismic Cone Penetration Test (SCPT)

The site classification of rock and soil units will confront with the site categories of Eurocode 8 (EC-8) and NEHRP (2000) directives.