USC Strong Motion Research Group - Selected Publications

Selected Publications

INVITED LECTURES

Are We Ignoring Our Own? Earthquake Engineering in the 21st Century (EE-21C), Skopje-Ohrid, Macedonia, August 27-September 1, 2005
Power Design Method, Earthquake Engineering in the 21st Century (EE-21C), Skopje-Ohrid, Macedonia, August 27-September 1, 2005
Full-Scale Experimental Studies of Soil-Structure Interaction - A Review, 2nd U.S.-Japan Workshop on Soil-Structure Interaction, March 6-8, 2001, Tsukuba City, Japan
Energy of Earthquake Response as a Design Tool, 13th Mexican National Conf. on Earthquake Engineering, 31 October to 3 November 2001, Guadalajara, Mexico
70th Anniversary of Biot Spectrum, 23-rd ISET Annual Lecture, December 17, 2002, Roorkee, India

RECENT REPORTS AND PAPERS

75th Anniversary of the Response Spectrum Method

60th Birthday Celebration of Prof. Mihailo D. Trifunac:

Structural Health Monitoring:

Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis

Full-Scale Testing and Soil-Structure Interaction:

Earthquake Damage Surveys:

Ground Motion:

Northridge Earthquake of 17 January 1994:

Instrumentation and Data Processing:

Stochastic Analysis:

Tsunami:

75th Anniversary of the Response Spectrum Method

Early history of the response spectrum method, a monograph featuring three articles, by M. Trifunac, N. Biot and M.A. Biot, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the formulation of the concept of the response spectrum method. Edited by M. Trifunac, Report CE 07-01 Dept. of Civil Eng. Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, July 2007 (~2 Mb).

60th Birthday Celebration of Prof. Mihailo D. Trifunac:

From seismic source to structural response: contributions of Professor Mihailo D. Trifunac, Edited by V.K. Gupta (2004). Report CE 04-04, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Univ. of Southern California.

Structural Health Monitoring:

Variability of the fixed-base and soil-structure system frequencies of a building – the case of Borik-2 building, Trifunac, MD, M.I. Todorovska, M.I. Manić, and B.Đ. Bulajić, Structural Control and Health Monitoring, submitted for publication, 2007.
Impulse response analysis of the Van Nuys 7-story hotel during 11 earthquakes and earthquake damage detection, M.I. Todorovska and M.D. Trifunac, Structural Control and Health Monitoring, DOI: 10.1002/stc.208, in press, 2007.
Earthquake damage detection in the Imperial County Services Building I: the data and time-frequency analysis, M.I. Todorovska and M.D. Trifunac, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 27(6), 564–576, 2007.
Earthquake damage detection in the Imperial County Services Building II: analysis of novelties via wavelets, M.I. Todorovska and M.D. Trifunac, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, submitted for publication, 2007.
Earthquake damage detection in the Imperial County Services Building III: analysis of wave travel times via impulse response functions, M.I. Todorovska and M.D. Trifunac, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, doi:10.1016/j.soildyn.2007.07.001, in press, 2007.
Effects of rainfall on soil-structure system frequency: examples based on poroelasticity and a comparison with full-scale measurements, M.I. Todorovska & Y. Al Rjoub, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engrg, 26(6-7), 708-717, 2006. (Special issue on Biot Centennial – Earthquake Engineering).
Impulse response analysis of the Van Nuys 7-story hotel during 11 earthquakes (1971-1994): one-dimensional wave propagation and inferences on global and local reduction of stiffness due to earthquake damage, M.I. Todorovska and M.D. Trifunac, USC Report CE 06-01, 2006, pp. 61 (~2 Mb)

Wave propagation in a seven-story reinforced concrete building, Part III: damage detection via changes in wavenumbers, M.D. Trifunac, M.I. Todorovska & S.S. Ivanovic, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 23(1), 65-75, 2003.
On Identification of Damage Via Wave Travel Times, S.S Ivanovic, M.D. Trifunac & M.I. Todorovska, Proc. Nato Advanced
Research Workshop on Strong-Motion Instrumentation for Civil Engineering Structures, June 2-5, 1999, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 21. (PDF)

Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis

A note on probabilistic assessment of fault displacement hazard, M.I. Todorovska and M.D. Trifunac,Proc. 8^th National Conf. on Earthquake Engineering, San Francisco, CA, April 18-22, 2006, pp10.
Selected Topics in Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment, M.I. Todorovska, I.D. Gupta, V.K. Gupta, V.W. Lee and M.D. Trifunac, Report No. 95-08, Dept. of Civil Engrg., Univ. of Southern California, 1995.
Liquefaction opportunity mapping via seismic wave energy, M.I. Todorovska and M.D. Trifunac, J. Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Eng., ASCE, 125(12), 1032-1042, 1999.

Full-Scale Testing and Soil-Structure Interaction:

Impulse response analysis of the Van Nuys 7-story hotel during 11 earthquakes (1971-1994): one-dimensional wave propagation and inferences on global and local reduction of stiffness due to earthquake damage, M.I. Todorovska and M.D. Trifunac, USC Report CE 06-01, 2006, pp. 61 (~2 Mb)
Variations of apparent building frequencies - lessons from full-scale earthquake observations, M.I. Todorovska, MD Trifunac & T.Y. Hao, Proc. First European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (a joint event of the 13^th ECEE & 30^th General Assembly of the ESC), Geneva, Switzerland, 3-8 September 2006, Paper Number: 1547, 2006, pp. 9.
Plain strain soil-structure interaction model for a building supported by a circular foundation embedded in a poroelastic half-space, M.I. Todorovska & Y. Al Rjoub, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engrg, 26(6-7), 694-707, 2006. (Special issue on Biot Centennial – Earthquake Engineering).
Effects of rainfall on soil-structure system frequency: examples based on poroelasticity and a comparison with full-scale measurements, M.I. Todorovska & Y. Al Rjoub, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engrg, 26(6-7), 708-717, 2006. (Special issue on Biot Centennial – Earthquake Engineering).
Instrumented buildings of University of Southern California Strong motion data, metadata and soil-structure system frequencies, T-Y. Hao, M.D. Trifunac and M.I. Todorovska, USC Report CE 04-01, 2004.
Building Periods for Use in Earthquake Resistant Design Codes – Earthquake Response Data Compilation and Analysis of Time and Amplitude Variations, Appendix A, Appendix B. M.I. Todorovska, T.-Y. Hao and M.D. Trifunac, USC Report CE 04-02, 2004.

Full-scale experimental studies of soil-structure interaction - a review, M.D. Trifunac, M.I. Todorovska & T.Y. Hao, Proc. 2nd U.S.-Japan Workshop on Soil-Structure Interaction, March 6-8, 2001, Tsukuba City, Japan, pp. 52. (PDF, ~3.2 Mb, print on PostScript printer)
Flexible versus rigid foundation models of soil-structure interaction: incident SH-waves, M.I. Todorovska, A. Hayir & M.D. Trifunac, Proc. 2nd U.S.-Japan Workshop on Soil-Structure Interaction, March 6-8, 2001, Tsukuba City, Japan, pp. 19. (PDF, ~1Mb, print on PostScript printer)
Evolution of accelerographs, data processing, strong motion arrays and amplitude and spatial resolution in recording strong earthquake motion, M.D. Trifunac & M.I. Todorovska, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering, 2001, 21(6), 537-555 (PDF ~1.1 Mb, pp. 49, print on PostScript printer)
Ambient vibration tests of structures - a review, S. Ivanovic, M.D. Trifunac & M.I. Todorovska, Bull. Indian Soc. Earthquake Tech., 2000, in press. (PDF ~2 Mb, pp. 48, print on PostScript printer)
Recording and interpreting earthquake response of full-scale structures , M.D. Trifunac and M.I. Todorovska, Proc. Nato Advanced Research Workshop on Strong-Motion Instrumentation for Civil Engineering Structures, June 2-5, 1999, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 24. (PDF, 0.3 Mb )
Apparent periods of a building I: Fourier analysis, M.D. Trifunac, S.S. Ivanovic & M.I. Todorovska, J. of Struct. Engrg, ASCE, 127(5), 517-526, 2001.
Apparent periods of a building II: time-frequency analysis, M.D. Trifunac, S.S. Ivanovic & M.I. Todorovska, J. of Struct. Engrg, ASCE, 127(5), 527-537, 2001.
Wave propagation in a seven-story reinforced concrete building, Part I: theoretical models, M.I. Todorovska, S.S. Ivanovic & M.D. Trifunac, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 21(3), 211-223, 2001.
Wave propagation in a seven-story reinforced concrete building, Part II: observed wavenumbers, M.I. Todorovska, S.S. Ivanovic & M.D. Trifunac, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 21(3), 224-236, 2001.
Wave propagation in a seven-story reinforced concrete building, Part III: damage detection via changes in wavenumbers, M.D. Trifunac, M.I. Todorovska & S.S. Ivanovic, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 23(1), 65-75, 2003.
Ambient vibration tests of a seven-story reinforced concrete building in Van Nuys, California, damaged by the 1994 Northridge Earthquake, S.S. Ivanovic, M.D. Trifunac, E.I. Novikova, A.A. Gladkov and M.I. Todorovska, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engrg, 19(6), 391-411, 2000.
Experimental evidence for flexibility of a building foundation supported by concrete friction piles, M. D. Trifunac, S. S. Ivanovic, M. I. Todorovska, E. I. Novikova and A. A. Gladkov, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 18(3), 169-18, 1999.
Ambient vibration surveys of full-scale structures - examples for Kaprielian Hall, S.S. Ivanovic and M.D. Trifunac, USC Report CE 95-05, 1995 (PDF, 9.2 Mb).
Instrumented 7-storey reinforced concrete building in Van Nuys, California: ambient vibration surveys following the damage from the 1994 Northridge earthquake, S.S. Ivanovic, M.D. Trifunac, E.I. Novikova, A.A. Gladkov & M.I. Todorovska, USC Report CE 99-03, 1999. (PDF ~2.2 Mb)
Response of a 14-story reinforced concrete structure to nine earthquakes: 61 years of observation in the Hollywood Storage building, M.D. Trifunac, T.Y. Hao & M.I. Todorovska, USC Report CE 01-02, 2001. (PDF ~9.8 Mb)
On energy flow in earthquake response, M.D. Trifunac, T.Y. Hao & M.I. Todorovska, USC Report CE 01-03, 2001. (PDF ~22.1 Mb). Also available in two parts: main (18.5 Mb) and appendices (3.6 Mb).
Response spectra for differential motion of columns, M.I. Todorovska and M.D. Trifunac, Proc. 12th Wold Conf. on Earthquake Engineering, 31 Jan.-4 Feb., 2000, Auckland, New Zealand, Paper No. 2638, pp. 8. (PDF)
On Identification of Damage Via Wave Travel Times, S.S Ivanovic, M.D. Trifunac & M.I. Todorovska, Proc. Nato Advanced Research Workshop on Strong-Motion Instrumentation for Civil Engineering Structures, June 2-5, 1999, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 21. (PDF)

Earthquake Damage Surveys:

Instrumented 7-storey reinforced concrete building in Van Nuys, California: description of damage from the 1994 Northridge earthquake and strong motion data, M.D. Trifunac, S.S. Ivanovic & M.I. Todorovska, USC Report CE 99-02, 1999. (PDF ~8.5 Mb; pp. 60+37+31). Also available in three parts: main (2.2 Mb, pp. 60), appendix 1 (3.7 Mb, pp. 37) & appendix 2 (2.5 Mb, pp. 31).
7-storey reinforced concrete building in Van Nuys, California: photographs of the damage from the 1994 Northridge earthquake, M.D. Trifunac & T.Y. Hao, USC Report CE 01-05, 2001.

Ground Motion:

Scattering of SV waves by a canyon in a fluid-saturated, poroelastic layered half-space, modeled using the indirect boundary element method, Jianwen Liang, Hongbing You and Vincent W. Lee, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 26(6-7), 611-625, 2006.
On the reflection of elastic waves in a poroelastic half-space saturated with non-viscous fluid, C.H. Lin, V.W. Lee & M.D. Trifunac, USC Report CE 01-04, 2001. (PDF ~3.6Mb)
Can aftershock studies predict site amplification? Northridge, CA, earthquake of 17 January, 1996, Trifunac, M.D. & M.I. Todorovska, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 19(4), 233-251, 2000.
Long period microtremors, microseisms and earthquake damage: Northridge, CA, earthquake of 17 January, 1994, M.D. Trifunac, M.D. & M.I. Todorovska, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 19(4), 253-267, 2000.
On reoccurrence of site specific response, M.D. Trifunac, T.Y. Hao & M.I. Todorovska, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 18(8), 569-592, 1999.
Simulation of strong earthquake ground motion by explosions-experiments at the Lyaur testing range in Tajikistan, S.Kh. Negmatullaev, M.I. Todorovska & M.D. Trifunac, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 18(3), 189-207, 1999.
Pseudo relative velocity spectra of earthquake ground motion at long periods, M.D. Trifunac, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 14, 331-346, 1995.
A preliminary study if the duration of strong earthquake ground motion on the territory of former Yugoslavia, E.I. Novikova, M.I. Todorovska & M.D. Trifunac USC Report CE 93-09, 1995
Broad band extension of pseudo relative velocity spectra of strong ground motion, M.D. Trifunac& M.I. Todorovska, USC Report CE 94-02, 1994.
Frequency dependent duration of strong earthquake ground motion: updated empirical equations, E.I. Novikova & M.D. Trifunac, USC Report CE 95-01, 1995.
Empirical equations describing attenuation of peaks of strong ground motion, in terms of magnitude, distance, path effects and site conditions, V.W. Lee, M.D. Trifunac, M.I. Todorovska & E.I. Novikova, USC Report CE 95-02, 1995.
Frequency dependent attenuation function and Fourier amplitude spectra of strong earthquake ground motion in California, V.W. Lee & M.D. Trifunac, USC Report CE 95-03, 1995.
Pseudo relative velocity spectra of strong earthquake ground motion in California, V.W. Lee & M.D. Trifunac, USC Report CE 95-04, 1995.

Northridge Earthquake of 17 January 1994:

Can aftershock studies predict site amplification? Northridge, CA, earthquake of 17 January, 1996, Trifunac, M.D. & M.I. Todorovska, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 19(4), 233-251, 2000. (PDF, Copyright Elsevier Science Ltd.)
Long period microtremors, microseisms and earthquake damage: Northridge, CA, earthquake of 17 January, 1994, M.D. Trifunac, M.D. & M.I. Todorovska, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 19(4), 253-267, 2000.
On reoccurrence of site specific response, M.D. Trifunac, T.Y. Hao & M.I. Todorovska, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 18(8), 569-592, 1999.
Amplitudes, polarity and time of peaks of strong ground motion during the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake,M.I. Todorovska & M.D. Trifunac, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 16(4), 235-258, 1997.
Distribution of pseudo spectral velocity during the Northridge, California, Earthquake of 17 January, 1994, M.I. Todorovska & M.D. Trifunac, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 16(3), 173-192, 1997.
Nonlinear soil response 1994 Northridge,California, earthquake, M.D. Trifunac & M.I. Todorovska, J. of Geotech. Engrg, ASCE, 122(9), 725-735, 1996.
Reduction of structural damage by nonlinear soil response, M.D. Trifunac & M.I. Todorovska, J. of Struct. Engrg, ASCE, 125(1), 89-97, 1999.
Northridge, California, earthquake of 1994: density of red-tagged buildings versus peak horizontal velocity and intensity of shaking, M.D. Trifunac & M.I. Todorovska, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 16(3), 209-222, 1997.
Northridge, California, earthquake of 1994: density of pipe breaks and surface strains, M.D. Trifunac & M.I. Todorovska, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 16(3), 193-207, 1997.
Nonlinear soil response as a natural passive isolation mechanism – the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake, M.D. Trifunac & M.I. Todorovska, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 17(1), 41-51, 1998.
Damage distribution during the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake relative to generalized categories of surficial geology, M.D. Trifunac & M.I. Todorovska, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 17(4), 239-253, 1998.
The Northridge, California, earthquake of 1994: fire ignition by strong shaking, M.D. Trifunac & M.I. Todorovska, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 17(3), 165-175, 1998.
Peak velocities and peak surface strains during the Northridge, California, earthquake of 17 January 1994, M.D. Trifunac, M.I. Todorovska & S.S. Ivanovic, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 15(5), 301-310, 1996.
A note on distribution of uncorrected peak ground accelerations during the Northridge, California, earthquake of 17 January, 1994, M.D. Trifunac, M.I. Todorovska & S.S. Ivanovic, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 13(3), 187-196, 1994.
The Rinaldi strong motion accelerogram of the Northridge, California, earthquake of 17 January 1994, M.D. Trifunac, M.I. Todorovska & V.W. Lee, Earthquake Spectra, 14(1), 225-239, 1998.

Instrumentation and Data Processing:

A note on the useable dynamic range of accelerographs recording translation, M.D. Trifunac & M.I. Todorovska, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 21(4), 275-286, 2001. (PDF ~0.6 Mb, pp. 33, print on PostScript printer)
Evolution of accelerographs, data processing, strong motion arrays and amplitude and spatial resolution in recording strong earthquake motion, M.D. Trifunac & M.I. Todorovska, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering, 2001, 21(6), 537-555. (PDF ~1.1 Mb, pp. 49, print on PostScript printer)
Selected common problems in automatic digitization of accelerograms, M.D. Trifunac, V.W. Lee & M.I. Todorovska, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 18, 519-530, 1999.
Correction for misalignment and cross axis sensitivity of strong earthquake motion recorded by SMA-1 accelerographs, M.I. Todorovska, E.I. Novikova, M.D. Trifunac & S.S. Ivanovic, USC Report CE 95-06, 1995.
Estimation of instantaneous frequency of signals using the continuous wavelet transform, M.I. Todorovska, Report CE 01-07, Dept. of Civil Engrg., Univ. of Southern California, 2001 (0.85 Mb).
The ML = 6.4 Northridge, California, Earthquake and Five M > 5 Aftershocks Between 17 January and 20 March 1994 - Summary of Processed Strong Motion Data. M.I. Todorovska, M.D. Trifunac, V.W. Lee, C.D. Stephens, K.A. Fogleman, C. Davis and R. Tognazzini, Report CE 99-01, Dept. of Civil Engrg., Univ. of Southern California, 1999. Available in seven parts: main (0.5 Mb, pp. 48), appendix 1 (11.8 Mb, pp. 215), appendix 2 (4.4 Mb, pp. 83), appendix 3 (1.6 Mb, pp. 31), appendix 4 (2.6 Mb, pp. 45), appendix 5 (1.3 Mb, pp. 27) & appendix 6 (5.9 Mb, pp. 101).

Stochastic Analysis:

Investigation of nonstationarity in stochastic seismic response of structures, I.D. Gupta & M.D. Trifunac, USC Report CE 96-01.
Defining equivalent stationary PSDF to account for nonstationarity of earthquake ground motion, I.D. Gupta & M.D. Trifunac, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering, 17, 89-99, 1998.
An improved probabilistic spectrum superposition, I.D. Gupta & M.D. Trifunac, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering, 17, 1-11, 1998.
A note on statistics of ordered peaks in stationary stochastic processes, I.D. Gupta & M.D. Trifunac, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering, 17, 317-328, 1998.

Tsunami:

Near-field tsunami waveforms from submarine slumps and slides, M.D. Trifunac, A. Hayir & M.I. Todorovska, USC Report CE 01-01, pp. 137, 2001. (PDF, 4 Mb, print on PostScript printer)
Tsunami waveforms from submarine slides and slumps spreading in two dimensions (27.2 Mb), M.D. Trifunac, A. Hayir & M.I. Todorovska, USC Report CE 01-06, 2001. Available in three parts: main (2.3 Mb), and appendix A (23 Kb) and appendix B (25.5 Mb).
Generation of tsunamis by slowly spreading uplift of the sea floor, M.I. Todorovska & M.D. Trifunac, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engrg, 21(2), 151-167, 2001.
A note on the differences in tsunami source parameters for submarine slides and earthquakes, M.D. Trifunac & M.I. Todorovska, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engrg, 22(2), 143-155, 2002.
A note on tsunami amplitudes above submarine slides and slumps, M.I. Todorovska, A. Hayir & M.D. Trifunac, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engrg, 22(2), 129-141, 2002.
Was the Great Banks event of 1929 a slump spreading in two directions? M.D.Trifunac, A. Hayir & M.I. Todorovska, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engrg, 22(5), 349-360, 2002.
A note on the effects of nonuniform spreading velocity of submarine slumps and slides on the near-field tsunami amplitudes, M.D.Trifunac, A. Hayir & M.I. Todorovska, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engrg, 22(3), 167-180, 2002.
Near-field amplitudes of tsunami from submarine slumps and slides, M.I. Todorovska, A. Hayir & M.D.Trifunac, in A.C. Yalciner, E. Pelinovsky, E. Okal and C.E. Synolakis (Eds.), Submarine Slides and Tsunamis, NATO Science Series, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, pp. 59-68. Proc. NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Underground Water Failures, Tsunami Generation, Modeling, Risk and Mitigation, May 23-26, 2001, Istanbul, Turkey.
Tsunami Generation by Slow Submarine Processes, M.I. Todorovska, Proc. 13th Engrg Mech. Conf., ASCE, 13-16 June, 1999, Baltimore, Maryland. (PDF)

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