Civil Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
The experimental stationary semi-variogram
γ
ˆ (
Δ
) is estimated from a
dataset as follows
()
N
Δ
1
ˆ
() =
{
}
2
γ
Δ
zz
u
[3.12]
u
+
Δ
()
2
N
Δ
α
α
α
=
1
where z u denotes the data value at location u ; N (
Δ
) denotes the number of
pairs of sites separated by
th pair. For a given
earthquake i at site j , the ground-motion residual is estimated as
Δ
; and { z u α , z u α } denotes the
α
() =
Zj
log
Y
log
Y
=
εη
+
[3.13]
j
j
j
The normalized residual
τ
˜ j and the normalized within-earthquake resid-
ual
ε
˜ j are computed as
εη
σ
+
ε
σ
j
j
τ
=
;
ε
=
[3.14]
j
j
ε
,
j
ε
,
j
σ ε , j denotes the standard deviation of the within-earthquake residual
at site j . Note that the between-earthquake residual
where
is a constant across
all the sites during a given earthquake. Thus, the experimental semi-
variogram function of
η
ε
˜ can be obtained as follows (see Baker and Jayaram,
2008):
()
N
Δ
1
ˆ
() =
{
}
2
γ
Δ
εε
u
u
+
Δ
()
α
α
2
N
Δ
α
=
1
(
)
(
)
2
(
)
(
)
()
N
Δ
ln
Y
ln
Y
η
ln
Y
ln
Y
η
1
u
u
u
+
Δ
u
+
Δ
=
α
α
α
α
()
2
N
Δ
σ
σ
u
u
+
Δ
α
=
1
α
α
(
)
(
)
(
)
(
)
2
()
N
Δ
ln
Y
ln
Y
ln
Y
ln
Y
1
u
u
u
+
Δ
u
+
Δ
α
α
α
α
=
()
2
N
Δ
σ
σ
u
u
+
Δ
α
=
1
α
α
()
N
Δ
1
{
}
2
=
ττ
α
u
u
+
Δ
()
α
2
N
Δ
α
=
1
[3.15]
σ u α is the standard deviation of the within-earthquake residual at
location u α . The equation involves an approximation due to the mild
assumptions that
where
η
σ
η
=
.
σ
u
u
α
α
For the case of normalized between-earthquake residuals, the relation
between semi-variogram
ˆ ε (
γ
ˆ (
Δ
) and within-earthquake correlation
ρ
Δ
) is
the following:
ˆ
() =− ()
ˆ
γ
Δ
1
ρ ε
Δ
.
[3.16]
 
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