Purbanchal University

KHOWPA ENGINEERING COLLEGE

P.G. Department of Earthquake Engineeing

Subject: Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Date of submission: After Dashami Vacation

Tutorial 1 (Ground response analysis)

1. Describe local site effect and its importance in site response analysis

2. Explain in detail about Topographical effect and Basin Edge effect

3. What is impedance contrast and impedance constrast ratio? what is its role for amplificaton of

ground motion?

4. Describe the methods to estimate the soft ground effect. What are the detail process for

estimating the ground response?

5. Derive the expression for shear stress for a Kelvin-Vigot material of viscosity (η) for a harmonic

shear wave (ϒ= ϒ0Sin ωt)

6. What do you mean by one dimensional ground response analysis and what are the assumptions

for the one dimensional ground response analysis?

7. Evaluate the transfer function for uniform damped soil on rigid rock.

8. Calculate the fundamental period of a soil layer having 100 m thickness and 250 m/sec shear

wave velocity overlying a rigid bed rock.

Tutorial 2

9. What is microtremor? and what are its uses in site respone analysis?

10. What are the methods of site classification?

11. Describe in deatil the geotechnical aspects of the Kathmandu Valley