TITLE:
Spectral Comparison of Real Spectra with Site Effects Included vs MOC-2008 Teorical Spectra for Guadalajara City, Mexico
AUTHORS:
Héctor E. Rodríguez Lozoya, Tonatiuh Domínguez Reyes, Alfredo Reyes Salazar, Edén Bojórquez Mora, Héctor E. Rodríguez Leyva
KEYWORDS:
Response Spectra; Guadalajara; Seismic Records; Green Function
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Civil Engineering,
Vol.3 No.3,
August
29,
2013
ABSTRACT: Guadalajara city is the capital of the Mexican federal state of Jalisco. It is located close to the Pacific coast and is subjected to a large seismic risk. We present a seismic response study for some sites along the city. We calculated response spectra of shear-waves by using seismic records of actual earthquakes registered on rock and near the source as Green functions and propagated them trough a flat and horizontal layered media using a linear equivalent method to compare them with the response spectra calculated according to the Federal Commission of Electricity (CFE) seismic design buildings Manual (MOC-2008, 2008) which is widely used as reference on construction projects in Mexico. Our results show that MOC-2008 manual underestimates the spectral amplitudes and frequency band for the response spectra.