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WorksheetsQuiz 4.1 Earthquake Engineering
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
A part of structure where all the loads are transmitted here.
Column
Beams
Earth or underlying soil or roks
Foundation
It caused the loose on soft soils which will affect its bearing capacity.
Earthquake
Distress of soil
Liquefaction
Excitation
As it was observed, in a cluster of buildings with the same level, shallow rock has less damaged than deep soils
True
False
No relation
In the Philippines, this book was adopted for the provisions on design of earthquake resistant structures.
NSCP
UBC
Both NSCP and UBC
Site coefficients factor of medium stiff to stiff where the depth is not greater than 60.96 meters
1.0
1.2
1.5
2.0
This level of ground motion has been taken as being an effective peak ground acceleration of 0.4g.
Zone 1
Zone 2
Zone 4
Zone 3
It has an average shear wave velocity of 180 to 360 meters per second
soft rock
rock
stiff soil
soft soil
It has an average shear wave velocity of less than 180 meters per second
soft soil
stiff soil
rock
soft rock
A description of seismic source which has a maximum moment magnitude of 6.8
Faults that are capable of producing large magnitude events
It has a high rate of activity
It has a low rate of activity
None of the 3 choices
The types of soils requiring site-specific evaluation in Soil Profile Type SF
very low plasticity clays
partially decayed vegetation
Plasticity Index of 75 for the depth greater that 25 feet
low sensitive clays
