Basin Edge Effect at Turkish Basins: The Case Study of Dinar and Duzce Basins

Abstract

Several studies have revealed that the inclined bedrock at the sides of the basins bring about the concentration of damages, which well known as basin edge effect. As a seismically active area much of the Turkey lies on the Anatolian Plate. This small plate bounded by two major strike-slip fault zones, the North Anatolian Fault and East Anatolian Fault. During the history, Turkey has been the site of devastating earthquakes. Severe structural damage at basin sides during recent major earthquakes around the world strongly pointed out the importance of basin edge effect. Some of its notable examples can be tracked in Turkey. With respect to the fact that Turkey is among the top 20 percent of all countries exposed to earthquake hazard with regard to mortality and economic losses, the necessity of the investigation and consideration of the basin edge effect in earthquake design codes is revealed. In this study, the dynamic behavior at the edge of two real basins is investigated. In this study, at the first, the basin edge model of the basins are extracted from the data obtained from extensive microtremor surveys and geotechnical investigations as well as insitu studies including SPT, CPT, PS logging tests. Then, the idealized geometry of the Dinar and Duzce basins edge models are proposed. Afterwards, the basins are subjected to the collection of strong ground motions using a fully nonlinear method which works based on explicit finite difference scheme FLAC3D code. The 5566 COMPDYN 2019 7 th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering M. Papadrakakis, M. Fragiadakis (eds.