BONILLA , Luis Fabian

We propose a nodal high-order discontinuous Galerkin method for 1D wave propagation in nonlinear media. We solve the elastodynamic equations written in the velocity-strain formulation and apply an upwind flux adapted to heterogeneous media with nonlinear constitutive behavior coupling stress and strain. Accuracy, convergence and stability of...

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The 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal earthquake is the largest event to have struck the capital city of Kathmandu in recent times. One of its surprising features was the frequency content of the recorded ground motion, exhibiting a notable amplification at low frequencies (<2 Hz) and a contrasting depletion at higher frequencies. The latter has been...

Summary In 1906, an earthquake with a magnitude estimated between Mw 8.4 and 8.8 occurred in the subduction zone along the coast of Ecuador and Colombia. This earthquake caused extensive damage on the coast but had a rather small impact on the capital city of Quito, situated 180 km away. At that time, the city of Quito extended over a small...

SUMMARY In 1906, an earthquake with a magnitude estimated between Mw 8.4 and 8.8 occurred in the subduction zone along the coast of Ecuador and Colombia. This earthquake caused extensive damage on the coast but had a rather small impact on the capital city of Quito, situated 180 km away. At that time, the city of Quito extended over a small...

Strong seismic motions in soils generally lead to both a stiffness reduction and an increase of the energy dissipation in the surficial layers. In order to study such phenomena, several nonlinear constitutive models were proposed and were generally implemented for 1D soil columns. However, one of the main difficulties of complex rheologies is...

Strong seismic motions in soils generally lead to both a stiffness reduction and an increase of the energy dissipation in the surficial layers. In order to study such phenomena, several nonlinear constitutive models were proposed and were generally implemented for 1D soil columns. However, one of the main difficulties of complex rheologies is...

The city of Quito (3M inhabitants), capital of Ecuador, is prone to seismic hazard and the associated risk is increasing due to its growing. The city has been damaged several times in the past by earthquakes that occurred on crustal faults around Quito or in the Cordillera (Beauval et al., 2010). As far as we know, the earthquakes that occurred...

The influence of lateral heterogeneities in alluvial deposits represents a topic of particular interest in the field of urban planning and engineering design of structure and infrastructures. This work is focused on the effects of such heterogeneities on the shear strains produced within the recent alluvial deposits of the Tiber River in Rome...

The international project PRENOLIN is focused on verification and validation of numerical codes for ground motion simulations including nonlinear soil rheologies. In this particular study, we present implementations of the elasto-plastic Iwan model (Iwan, 1967) into numerical schemes based on finite-difference, finite element, spectral element...

Quito, the capital city of Ecuador, with a population close to three million inhabitants, is located in an earthquake‐prone region that has been struck by important events in the past. The city is built on the hanging wall of an active reverse fault, constituting a piggy‐back basin filled with volcanic and fluvial origin deposits. To date, the...