Spectral Comparison of Real Spectra with Site Effects Included vs MOC-2008 Teorical Spectra for Guadalajara City, Mexico

Héctor E. Rodríguez Lozoya, Tonatiuh Domínguez Reyes, Alfredo Reyes Salazar, Edén Bojórquez Mora, Héctor E. Rodríguez Leyva

Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, México D.F., México.
Observatorio Vulcanológico, Universidad de Colima, México D.F., México.

DOI: 10.4236/ojce.2013.33024                

Abstract

Guadalajara city is the capital of the Mexican federal state of Jalisco. It is located close to the Pacific coast and is subjected to a large seismic risk. We present a seismic response study for some sites along the city. We calculated response spectra of shear-waves by using seismic records of actual earthquakes registered on rock and near the source as Green functions and propagated them trough a flat and horizontal layered media using a linear equivalent method to compare them with the response spectra calculated according to the Federal Commission of Electricity (CFE) seismic design buildings Manual (MOC-2008, 2008) which is widely used as reference on construction projects in Mexico. Our results show that MOC-2008 manual underestimates the spectral amplitudes and frequency band for the response spectra.

Keywords

Response Spectra; Guadalajara; Seismic Records; Green Function

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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