Assessing Transformation Models Using a Geo-Database of Site Investigation Data for the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

Charlotte Gilder; Paul J Vardanega; Rama Pokhrel; Raffaele De Risi; Flavia De Luca

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-64514-4_29

Assessing Transformation Models Using a Geo-Database of Site Investigation Data for the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

Charlotte Gilder, Paul J Vardanega^*, Rama Pokhrel, Raffaele De Risi, Flavia De Luca

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Abstract

The Seismic Safety and Resilience of Schools in Nepal (SAFER) project has an important aim of producing improved tools for geotechnical and earthquake engineers to assess seismic hazard in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Geo-databases have the potential to offer geotechnical practitioners means to improve a-priori predictions of important soil parameters in geotechnical design. In this paper, some recent work to develop a new database of geotechnical information (SAFER/GEO-591) including shear wave velocity measurements is reported. Attempts to develop new transformation models to better predict shear wave velocity from more basic parameters such as SPT-N values are presented. Use of kriging to better map shear wave velocity for the study area is recommended as a suitable alternative to the presented correlations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Challenges and Innovations in Geomechanics - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of IACMAG - Volume 1
Subtitle of host publication	IACMAG 2021
Editors	Marco Barla, Alice Di Donna, Donatella Sterpi
Publisher	Springer, Cham
Pages	331–338
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-64514-4
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-64513-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64514-4_29
Publication status	Published - 15 Jan 2021
Event	International Conference of International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics - Duration: 5 May 2021 → 8 May 2021 Conference number: 16 https://www.symposium.it/en/events/2021/16th-international-conference-of-iacmag

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Name	Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Volume	125
ISSN (Print)	2366-2557
ISSN (Electronic)	2366-2565

Conference

Conference	International Conference of International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics
Abbreviated title	IACMAG2020
Period	5/05/21 → 8/05/21
Internet address	https://www.symposium.it/en/events/2021/16th-international-conference-of-iacmag

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Funding Information:
Acknowledgements. The first author acknowledges the support of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) (EP/R51245X/1). The authors also acknowledge the support of the EPSRC project (EP/P028926/1). Data Availability: the dataset used to produce the figures is available from Gilder et al. (2019b).

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© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Keywords

database
Transformation models
Site investigation
Kathmandu Valley

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SAFER Seismic safety and resilience of schools in Nepal
Sextos, A. (Principal Investigator), De Luca, F. (Co-Investigator), Vardanega, P. J. (Co-Investigator), Agarwal, J. (Co-Investigator), Alexander, N. A. (Co-Investigator) & Werner, M. (Co-Investigator)
1/05/17 → 30/06/21
Project: Research, Parent

The SAFER Borehole Database (SAFER/GEO-591_v1.1)
Gilder, C. (Creator), Pokhrel, R. M. (Creator) & Vardanega, P. (Creator), University of Bristol, 18 Dec 2019
DOI: 10.5523/bris.3gjcvx51lnpuv269xsa1yrb0rw, http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/3gjcvx51lnpuv269xsa1yrb0rw
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Gilder, C., Vardanega, P. J., Pokhrel, R., De Risi, R., & De Luca, F. (2021). Assessing Transformation Models Using a Geo-Database of Site Investigation Data for the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. In M. Barla, A. Di Donna, & D. Sterpi (Eds.), Challenges and Innovations in Geomechanics - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of IACMAG - Volume 1: IACMAG 2021 (pp. 331–338). (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering; Vol. 125). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64514-4_29

Gilder, Charlotte ; Vardanega, Paul J ; Pokhrel, Rama et al. / Assessing Transformation Models Using a Geo-Database of Site Investigation Data for the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Challenges and Innovations in Geomechanics - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of IACMAG - Volume 1: IACMAG 2021. editor / Marco Barla ; Alice Di Donna ; Donatella Sterpi. Springer, Cham, 2021. pp. 331–338 (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering).

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Assessing Transformation Models Using a Geo-Database of Site Investigation Data for the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. / Gilder, Charlotte; Vardanega, Paul J; Pokhrel, Rama et al.
Challenges and Innovations in Geomechanics - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of IACMAG - Volume 1: IACMAG 2021. ed. / Marco Barla; Alice Di Donna; Donatella Sterpi. Springer, Cham, 2021. p. 331–338 (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering; Vol. 125).

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Assessing Transformation Models Using a Geo-Database of Site Investigation Data for the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

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SAFER Seismic safety and resilience of schools in Nepal

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