{"id":215,"date":"2013-05-16T12:23:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T16:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/?page_id=215"},"modified":"2025-09-09T15:21:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:21:31","slug":"soil-amplification","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/projects\/soil-amplification\/","title":{"rendered":"Soil Amplification"},"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                        Soil Amplification\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Reducing earthquake amplification by soil improvements<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Post-earthquake investigations after the 1994 Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles revealed that a localized patch of weak clay modified the overall dynamic response of the ground, probably by dynamic shear in weak clay. This mechanism is investigated here using both experimental shake table tests and numerical methods.<b><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/SSI-2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/SSI-2-400x320.png\" alt=\"SSI-2\" class=\"wp-image-197\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reducing earthquake amplification by soil improvements Post-earthquake investigations after the 1994 Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles revealed that a localized patch of weak clay modified the overall dynamic response of the ground, probably by dynamic shear in weak clay. This mechanism is investigated here using both experimental shake table tests and numerical methods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":0,"parent":42,"menu_order":6,"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-215","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/215","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=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/215\/revisions\/473"}],"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=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}