List of Publications by Department for the Academic Year An Ensemble Kalman Filter Approach for Estimating Site Specific Earthquake Response
Abstract
Accurate local site response analysis allows for assessing the response of sites nearby an
active seismic zone, and consequently modeling the expected earthquake behavior at the
surface level. However, the modeling of this non-linear behavior is always accompanied with
high uncertainty and variability that could lead to either an unsafe or a very conservative
design. One way to overcome these challenges is by relying on site specific instrumentation
techniques. In this study a sequential data assimilation technique is employed for real time
calibration of the adopted soil model by relying on a measurement data array from different
soil layers in the site of interest. The dynamic model parameters are updated in an optimal
probabilistic framework using Ensemble Kalman Filter and therefore minimizing the
mismatch between the measured and the predicted response of the site of interest. Due to
complexities associated with inverting and updating a non-linear soil model, limited number
of studies used monitoring techniques to calibrate a non-linear hysteretic soil model while
incorporating different sources of uncertainties. Therefore, in this study monitored data are
coupled with a non-linear dynamical model in a probabilistic setting to accurately simulate
the vertical wave propagation through the soil layers of a given site. This study uses simulated
vertical arrays measurements to assess the validity of the framework and to determine several
practical concerns such as convergence and robustness of the presented non-linear scheme.
Author(s)
Wael Ghassan Slika
Coauthor(s)
Farah Jaafar
Journal/Conference Information
7
th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on
Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering,Conference Type: International, ISBN: NA, Organized By: The European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences, Proceeding Format: Electronic editions, Conference Date: 06/24/2019,