Effect of the soil spatial variability on the seismic behavior of a free field elastic medium

Uncertainty Quantification in non-linear seismic wave propagation

“…The proposed approach was based on PCE representation of the stochastic solution. In 2013, Al-Bittar et al [67] also studied probabilistic seismic behaviour considering the shear modulus as a one-dimensional, vertically varying, non-Gaussian random field, and using both Monte Carlo Simulation and Sparse PCE methodology. However, the model was elastic and the deterministic analysis was performed using finite difference based FLAC 3-D. Another good reference demonstrating the use of seismic modelling and PCE is Wang and Hao [68].…”