<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kassaras, I.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Benetatos, C.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kalantoni, D.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kaviris, G.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Michalaki, K.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Makropoulos, K.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Soil-structure interaction scenarios in Lefkas old town (W. Greece)</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Second European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (2ECEES)</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2014</style></year></dates><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Istanbul, Turkey, 24-29 August, 2014</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Lefkada Island is situated off the west coast of the Greek mainland and belongs to the complex&lt;br&gt;of the Ionian Islands, one of the most seismically prone areas within the SE Mediterranean region,&lt;br&gt;dominated by the right lateral Cephalonia Transform Fault Zone. As it is reported from historical and&lt;br&gt;instrumental catalogues the study area has suffered numerous devastating local earthquakes with&lt;br&gt;M&amp;gt;6.0. The most recent strong earthquake occurred on 14 August 2003, having M=6.2, at a distance&lt;br&gt;of only 10 km from the town of Lefkas where a peak ground acceleration of 0.42g was recorded, being&lt;br&gt;one of the largest observed in Greece during the last decades. Although the earthquake produced&lt;br&gt;limited damage to the building stock, it likely induced damages of geotechnical character, associated&lt;br&gt;with extensive liquefaction mainly in the waterfront of the town. Coseismic failure observations&lt;br&gt;provided an expansive database which tempted us and triggered a multitasking project toward loss&lt;br&gt;assessment in the Lefkada Old Town (LOT), comprising traditional construction practices of&lt;br&gt;architectural significance and high seismic behaviour as a rule.&lt;br&gt;The project employs several modules which were performed successively during the last years:&lt;br&gt;(A) Macroscopic analysis of the buildings stock in LOT by conducting a comprehensive in-situ&lt;br&gt;inventory of the buildings; (B) Vulnerability classification of the building stock using EMS98; (C)&lt;br&gt;Ground Motion Parameters (GMP) determination for regional hazard assessment; (D) Site effects&lt;br&gt;resulting from a detailed ambient noise study conducted in LOT; (E) Analysis of available&lt;br&gt;geotechnical information and in-situ measurements of the local soil properties; (F) Employment of&lt;br&gt;damage distributions during the recent 2003 earthquake; (G) Development of an ARC-GIS platform to&lt;br&gt;include and allow the process of the massive data collected.&lt;br&gt;In this paper we present a first attempt to synthesize the above modules in order to investigate&lt;br&gt;soil-structure interactions in LOT, assuming a linear response for both. By using various seismic&lt;br&gt;sources whose characteristics are inferred by the active tectonics and the probabilistic hazard&lt;br&gt;assessment of the study area, strong ground motion has been simulated both stochastically and&lt;br&gt;deterministically for hard bedrock conditions. GMPs were constrained beneath the foundations of the&lt;br&gt;buildings by convolving the simulated ground motion with the soil transfer functions deduced from&lt;br&gt;microtremors. According to this, for each scenario a damage potential has been assigned at each&lt;br&gt;building. The obtained patterns were proven to be fairly comparable with the damage distribution due&lt;br&gt;to the 2003 event, hence constituting a provocative motivation for further investigation and other&lt;br&gt;applications.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract></record></records></xml>