Overview
Fugro provides a full range of earthquake engineering services including:

• Fault studies
  
  • Fault rupture hazards
    
  • Fault identification and characterization
    
  • Use of geophysical methods for input into fault studies
    
• Seismic hazard assessment
  
  • Deterministic seismic hazard assessment
    
  • Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment
    
  • Linear and nonlinear ground response analysis
    
  • Micro-zonation studies
    
• Soil liquefaction studies utilizing GIS routines
  
  • Lateral spreading
    
  • Liquefaction-induced ground settlement
    
  • Liquefaction mitigation (design of deep soil mixing, stone columns, compaction grouting, deep dynamic compaction)
    
  • Effects of soil liquefaction and lateral spreading- ground response, pile foundations, pipelines, and waterfront structures
    
• Earthquake-induced landslides/slope instability evaluations
  
• Seismic soil-structure interaction studies for onshore, near shore, and offshore structures
  
• Seismic design and seismic safety evaluation of offshore structures, LNG facilities, power stations, dams, embankments, pipelines, and levees
  

Fugro West's earthquake engineering experts, Dr. Shah Vahdani and Mr. Thomas Blake, have combined experience of over 40 years in all aspects of earthquake engineering, and are recognized throughout the state of California as leading consultants in that field.

Experience
Fugro's earthquake engineering experience is best highlighted by several projects:

• Earthquake Engineering Projects
  

Computer Programs
Fugro's staff is experienced in performing seismic hazard studies, one-dimensional, two-dimensional, and three-dimensional site response and ground deformation analysis, and seismic soil-structure interaction analysis using the following computer programs:

• FRISKSP, EQRISK
  
• TINKER
  
• SHAKE, SUMDES, TESS
  
• FLUSH
  
• SASSI
  
• FLAC
  
• QUAD4M, TEL DYN
  
• TEL STA, PLAXIS
  
• TNMN, NEWMARK
• EQFAULT, EQSEARCH
• LIQUEFY2
• UBCSEIS
  

Publications

The following publications are available in Adobe Acrobat format (PDF):

• Seed, R.B., Cetin, K.O., Moss, R.E.S., Kammerer, A., Wu, J., Pestana, J. and Riemer, M., Sancio, R.B., Bray, J.D., Kayen, R.E., and Faris, A. (2003) "Recent Advances in Soil Liquefaction Engineering: A Unified and Consistent Framework", White Paper for Keynote Presentation, 26th Annual ASCE Los Angeles Geotechnical Spring Seminar, Long Beach. (11M)

• Moss, R. (2003) "CPT-Based Probabilitic Assessment of Seismic Soil Liquefaction Initiation", Dissertation :
  • Cover (72KB)
  • Table of Contents (72KB)
  • Abstract (69KB)
  • Chapter 1- Introduction (22KB)
  • Chapter 2- Thin Layer Correction (145KB)
  • Chapter 3- Normalization for Effective Overburden Stress (643KB)
  • Chapter 4- Data Processing (97KB)
  • Chapter 5- Reliability Analysis within a Bayesian Framework (81KB)
  • Chapter 6- Liquefaction Triggering Correlations (329KB)
  • Chapter 7- Summary and Conclusions (20KB)
  • References (100KB)
  • Appendix- Field Case History Database
    • Appendix PDF 1 (4.6M)
    • Appendix PDF 2 (5.9M)
    • Appendix PDF 3 (4.1M)
    • Appendix PDF 4 (3.2M)
    • Appendix PDF 5 (2.4M)
    • Appendix PDF 6 (3.4M)
    • Appendix PDF 7 (1.1M)