{"id":196,"date":"2013-05-16T12:12:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T16:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/?page_id=196"},"modified":"2025-09-09T15:21:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:21:43","slug":"ssi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/projects\/ssi\/","title":{"rendered":"SSI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n        \n        \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-cu-black-50 pt-10 pb-12\" style=\"\">\n\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-cu-black-800 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        SSI\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n    <div class=\"grid gap-6 mx-auto my-6 cu-column md:gap-10 md:grid-cols-2 md:my-10 first:mt-0\">\n        \n<div class=\"cu-column-content\">\n    \n\n<p><b>Seismic site response and SSI in soft soils<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ground shaking from earthquakes can collapse buildings and bridges; disrupt utility services; and sometimes trigger landslides, floods, fires, and huge, destructive ocean waves (tsunamis). Estimates of losses from a future earthquake in the United States approach $200 billion. Eastern and Western Canada are exposed to earthquake hazards that may cause major disasters resulting in loss of life and substantial damage to property.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"cu-column-content\">\n    \n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/SSI1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"246\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/SSI1.jpg\" alt=\"SSI1\" class=\"wp-image-200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/SSI1.jpg 250w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/SSI1-160x157.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/SSI1-240x236.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Site conditions may significantly affect the seismic performance of structures through amplification of earthquake motion. Recent destructive earthquakes have shown the effect of local site conditions as well as seismic soil-structure interaction on seismic performance of structures and the level of damges experienced by them. This project is focused on developing innovative soil and foundation improvement solutions to reduce the earthquake foundation input motion and increase the resistance of foundations against earthquakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/SSI-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/SSI-4-400x293.jpg\" alt=\"SSI-4\" class=\"wp-image-199\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Site conditions may significantly affect the seismic performance of structures through amplification of earthquake motion. Recent destructive earthquakes have shown the effect of local site conditions as well as seismic soil-structure interaction on seismic performance of structures and the level of damges experienced by them. This project is focused on developing innovative soil and foundation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":0,"parent":42,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-196","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196\/revisions\/472"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}