Chapter 1

Question 1

All major construction that is required to be safe against earthquakes needs input from the _____, the _____, and the ______.

Answer 1

Geologist, Seismologist, and Engineer

Question 2

A type of fault wherein the crust is being pulled apart in which the overlying blocks moves down with respect to the lower block.

Answer 2

Normal Fault

Question 3

A natural phenomenon that causes sudden and violent shaking of the ground which creates destructive tremors that causes building to collapse and faults to form.

Answer 3

Earthquake

Question 4

What are the main causes of an earthquake?

Answer 4

Movement w/i the earth’s crust (tectonic plates) and Volcanic Eruption

Question 5

This investigates the dynamic earthquake loading by replacing the dynamic effect with a force that is applied statically to a structure or a structural component at the center of mass.

Answer 5

Pseudostatic Analysis

Question 6

One of the general approaches used to specify the earthquake motion that begins with the geological-seismological evaluation of earthquake sources and is carried up to a specification of the time histories that will be appropriate for the engineering site.

Answer 6

Site-specific approach

Question 7

It is a ratio between the acceleration for an appropriate spectral content and the response in a structure with the ground.

Answer 7

Seismic Coefficients

Question 8

It tests a structure by applying a cyclical load approximating that of an earthquake as it would be felt at an engineering site.

Answer 8

Dynamic Analysis

Question 9

A type of fault where the crust is being compressed, in which the hanging-wall block moves up and over the footwall block.

Answer 9

Reverse-fault

Question 10

True or False.

Where a pseudostatic analysis is to be done, usually no specific geologic or seismologic investigation is needed.

Answer 10

True