Seismic hazard and alpine valley response analysis
(SISMOVALP)
Start date: Jun 30, 2003,
End date: Mar 30, 2007
PROJECT
FINISHED
Due to tourism and industrial development, urbanised areas located on deep-filled sediment alpine valley have undergone massive development. In the last decade, many seismological studies have shown that vibrations due to earthquakes are strongly amplified by alpine-specific soil conditions. Therefore, the fast building expansion in the alpine environment may have not been regulated by adequate levels of earthquake resistant design.The project will build a transnational database which can be used in the whole alpine space for seismic hazard studies. Representative alpine valleys shapes and earthquake scenarios will be defined and the associated vibrations will be calculated. Generic alpine spectra and accelerograms will be proposed and compared with the level of protection currently pursued at a national or European (EC8) scale. The improved seismic risk knowledge will be disseminated to civil engineers and local authorities in order to reduce our vulnerability to earthquakes in the alpine space.
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Coordinator
- Grenoble, France Grenoble cedex 9 (France)
11 Partners Participants
- Via della Rocca, 49, 10123 Turin, Italy Torino (Italy)
- Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32, 20133 Milan, Italy Milano (Italy)
- 3 Avenue Claude Guillemin, 45100 Orléans, France Orléans cedex 2 (France)
- Sion, Switzerland Sion (Switzerland)
- Ljubljana, Slovenia Lubljana (Slovenia)
- 1021 Rue de la Piscine, 38610 Gières, France Grenoble cedex 9 (France)
- Località Borgo Grotta Gigante, 42, 34010 Sgonico Trieste, Italy Sgonico (Italy)
- Theresienstraße 41, 80333 Munich, Germany Muenchen (Germany)
- 11020 Quart Aosta, Italy Quart (Italy)
- 16132 Genoa, Italy Genova (Italy)
- 34127 Trieste, Italy Trieste (Italy)