Empirical correlations between ground motion intensity measures from the NGA‐West2 database and their use in vector generalized conditional intensity measures

Abstract

This paper examines the empirical correlations between 14 intensity measures (IMs) describing the frequency content, amplitude, cumulative effects, and duration aspects of ground motion based on the NGA‐West2 database. The correlation results in this paper are compared with the results of previous models based on the NGA‐West1 database, and the previous correlation coefficient models are updated and extended. The comparison results show that the trend of the correlation coefficients of the model established in this paper is essentially consistent with previous models based on the NGA‐West1 database, with most correlation coefficients observed in this paper being slightly lower than in previous studies. In addition, this paper extends the generalized conditional intensity measure (GCIM) ground motion selection method so that it can consider multiple conditional IMs (VGCIM), and gives full theoretical details. The differences between the theories of VGCIM and GCIM are discussed, and several possible application scenarios of VGCIM are illustrated. An example application of VGCIM is shown, and the results show that there are deviations between the target IMs conditional distribution constructed after considering multiple conditional IMs and considering one IM that is sufficient to make an impact in the ground motion selection. Finally, the effect of the correlation coefficient model on the IMs conditional distributions generated based on GCIM and VGCIM is discussed.