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Abstract

A new geotechnical site investigation has been conducted in the southern breakwater basin of the Port of Barcelona, for which hundreds of in-situ and lab tests have been performed. Among these tests, this study focuses on the evaluation of triple points. That is, at the prospected locations, there are results from seismic dilatometer Marchetti test (SDMT), cone penetration tests (CPTu), and laboratory tests based on soil samples. Based on this information, the probabilistic distribution of the dynamic and geometrical properties of the soil profiles can be properly characterized. Eleven closely spaced boreholes have been used to characterise the statistical properties of the input variables. The objective of this article is twofold. First, the probabilistic generation of one-thousand soil profiles, which are statistically compatible with the data provided by the eleven aforementioned boreholes. Secondly, to analyse how the elastic properties of the generated soil profiles evolve once seismic waves have passed through them. To do so, a large set of ground motion recorded in hard soils have been employed. Results show that the dynamic response of the soil can be properly parametrized if considering intensity measures extracted from the ground motions acting at the bedrock level. From the results obtained, fragility functions have been derived for risk assessment purposes.

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