A Site Response Module Toolbox for the Broadband Platform: Implementation and Verification

Jian Shi, & Domniki Asimaki

Published August 16, 2019, SCEC Contribution #9906, 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting Poster #010

We present a site module toolbox for the SCEC broadband platform, which synthesizes individual tools and libraries that we developed over the past years, supported in part by SCEC. Our open-source Python library, PySeismoSoil, can be used to compute: (1) synthetic empirical adjustments for nonlinear site response on BBP ground motion synthetics in the Western United States, (2) site-specific (wave-propagation based) nonlinear site response, and (3) randomized 1D shear wave velocity profiles. Each component of the module has been previously verified and validated as part of the international benchmark effort for nonlinear site response code, PRENOLIN (Regnier et al., 2018). The module toolbox requires the same input as the site factors currently implemented on the BBP, thus providing complete backward compatibility. Beyond the BBP, the module can be used as a standalone toolbox for site response analyses intended for seismic hazard estimation and earthquake engineering design procedures.

Citation
Shi, J., & Asimaki, D. (2019, 08). A Site Response Module Toolbox for the Broadband Platform: Implementation and Verification. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting.

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