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Title: Evidence of seismic deformation of the paved floor of the decumanus at Tindari (NE, Sicily)
Authors: Bottari, C.*
Bottari, A.*
Carveni, P.*
Saccà, C.*
Spigo, U.*
Teramo, A.*
Keywords: Fourier analysis
Elasticity and anelasticity
Earthquake ground motions
Site effects
Computational seismology
Issue Date: 2008
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Title of journal: Geophysical Journal International
Series/Report no.: / 174 (2008)
Abstract: Most of the ancient town of Tindari (NE, Sicily) was settled on a plateau the most surficial layer of which was made of unconsolidated material. Ongoing excavations at the archaeological site at Tindari uncovered a large portion of the decumanus which suffered deformations preliminarily assigned to coseismic effects. An analysis of the local dynamic response through the simulation of strong seismic shaking to the bedrock and modelling of spectral ratios of the bedrock-soft soil was carried out to verify the susceptibility of superficial terrains of the promontory to coseismic deformations. To perform this simulation the finite element method (FEM) was used. Four accelerometric recordings of three earthquakes of medium-high magnitude, recorded on rocky sites, were chosen to simulate the seismic shaking, using a constitutive law for the materials composing the promontory layers both of linear-elastic type and of elastoplastic type. The analysis of the linear-elastic field allowed the definition of the frequencies for which the spectral ratios of the accelerations recorded the highest amplifications; in particular the frequency range 31.5–37.2 Hz can be combined with deformation of the paved floor of the decumanus. The analysis in the elastoplastic field highlighted the zones of promontory more susceptible to suffer plasticization process. The results show that the topmost layer of the decumanus is the most susceptible to suffer plasticization. Therefore, the performed analysis lends greater support to the hypothesis that the deformations were produced by seismic shaking.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2122/4037
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03772.x
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