Plenary Papers

STRONG MOTION CHARACTERISTICS AND THEIR DAMAGE IMPACT TO STRUCTURES DURING THE OFF PACIFIC COAST OF TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE OF MARCH 11, 2011: HOW EXTRAORDINARY WAS THIS M9.0 EARTHQUAKE?, Hiroshi Kawase.

NONLINEAR SITE RESPONSE OF THE 2010 DARFIELD, NEW ZEALAND, EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCE, Kuo-Liang Wen, Jyun-Yan Huang, Chun-Te Chen, and Yi-Wei Cheng.

RECENT EXPERIENCE AND PRACTICE FOR STRONG MOTION OBSERVATION IN CHINA, Ruizhi Wen and Yefei Ren.

ENHANCING SITE RESPONSE MODELING THROUGH DOWNHOLE ARRAY RECORDINGS, Youssef M. A. Hashash, David R. Groholski, and Byungmin Kim.

GEOTECHNICAL DOWNHOLE ARRAYS RECENTLY DEPLOYED IN ISTANBUL, Asli Kurtulus, Atilla Ansal, and Erdal Safak.

SITE RESPONSE MODELING IN LIQUEFIABLE SOIL DEPOSITS, Steve L. Kramer, Aaron J. Hartvigsen, Samuel S. Sideras, and Pelin T. Ozener.

THE CHALLENGE OF NONLINEAR SITE RESPONSE: FIELD DATA OBSERVATIONS AND NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS, Luis Fabian Bonilla, Celine Gelis, and Julie Reginier.

PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC HAZARD MAPS FOR SEATTLE: 3D SEDIMENTARY BASIN EFFECTS, NONLINEAR SITE RESPONSE, AND UNCERTAINTIES FROM RANDOM VELOCITY VARIATIONS, Arthur Frankel, William Stephenson, David Carver, Jack Odum, Robert Williams, and Susan Rhea.

3D NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTION IN SEDIMENTARY BASINS: THE CASES OF GUBBIO AND L'AQUILA, CENTRAL ITALY, Roberto Paolucci and Chiara Smerzini.

NONLINEARITY IN SITE RESPONSE - NONLINEAR VOLUMETRIC MECHANISM, Susumu Iai, Tetsuo Tobita, and Tomotaka Iwata.

NUMERICAL MODELING OF LIQUEFACTION EFFECTS, Ross W. Boulanger, Ronnie Kamai, and Katerina Ziotopoulou.

COMPLEX SITE RESPONSE: DOES ONE-DIMENSIONAL SITE RESPONSE WORK?, Laurie G. Baise, Eric M. Thompson, James Kaklamanos, and Luis Dorfmann.

EFFECTS OF LOCAL GEOLOGY ON EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTIONS: FROM RESEARCH TO ENGINEERING PRACTICE AND BUILDING CODES, C. B. Crouse.

ENGINEERING CHARACTERIZATION OF EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTION COHERENCY AND AMPLITUDE VARIABILITY, Timothy D. Ancheta, Jonathan P. Stewart, and Norman A. Abrahamson.

EFFECTS OF EARTHQUAKE SOURCE GEOMETRY AND SITE CONDITIONS ON SPATIAL CORRELATION OF EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTION HAZARD, Jack W. Baker and Mahalia K. Miller.