Assessment of Earthquake-Induced Soil Liquefaction Hazard
A special issue of Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 27268
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Interests: soil liquefaction; ground response analysis; seismic hazard; GIS; critical infrastructures; disaster risk reduction
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Interests: engineering geological mapping; hazard assessment (subsidence, landslide, liquefaction); geological interpretation of satellite interferometric data
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Dear Colleagues,
Earthquake-induced liquefaction is one of the most relevant phenomena of ground failure that may have disastrous consequences on structures and infrastructures. Recent examples include the 2010-2011 seismic sequence at Christchurch in New Zealand, the 2011 Tohoku Oki earthquake in Japan, the 2012 Emilia earthquakes in Northern Italy, the 2018 Sulawesi-Palu earthquake in Indonesia and the 2020 sequence in Croatia.
Liquefaction of soils is a phenomenon of instability affecting saturated deposits of loose sands which abruptly reduce their stiffness and strength due to pore water pressure build-up caused by severe ground shaking. Once triggered, liquefaction of soils may yield large deformations of the ground surface with sinking and overturning of buildings and infrastructures. In the Canterbury-Christchurch sequence, liquefaction affected nearly 60,000 residential buildings and the horizontal infrastructure over one third of the city. It is estimated that the total impact of the Canterbury-Christchurch earthquake sequence cost New Zealand approximately €23 billion. During the Japan 2011 Tohoku earthquake, approximately 27,000 houses, more than 2,000 levees and several ports suffered damage from the resulting ground liquefaction. During the Emilia sequence, 12,000 buildings were severely damaged and heavy damage to structures were often associated with ground failure and soil liquefaction. Ground deformations associated to liquefaction during the 2020 sequence in Croatia induced damages to critical assets, such as transport infrastructure, levees and embankment dams.
Efforts worldwide have been spent in recent years to mitigate liquefaction-related damage including developing multi-scale approaches and technical guidelines for the evaluation of the liquefaction potential.
This special issue is aimed at collecting the most prominent research results in the assessment of liquefaction hazard by combining interdisciplinary approaches coming from earthquake geotechnical engineering, engineering geology, soil dynamics, geomorphology and hydrogeology, to provide an overview of the innovative methodologies and a comprehensive state of the art in this field.
Dr. Francesca Bozzoni
Prof. Dr. Claudia Meisina
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- earthquake-induced soil liquefaction
- assesment of liquefaction hazard
- liquefaction manifestations
- zonation
- settlements
- lateral spreading
- GIS
- liquefaction-induced effects on structures and infrastructures
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