EuroMASS Soil-Structure Interaction Experiment: A Semi-Dense Array for the Analysis of Wave Propagation from a Single-Degree-of-Freedom Structure to Its Surroundings
Abstract For years, soil-structure interaction (SSI) has been a subject of interdisciplinary studies, although full-scale SSI experiments and the use of real data are rare. To study SSI in a well-known and controlled environment, a full-scale experiment, EuroMASS, was conducted at the Piana di Toppo test site in Northeast Italy. For the needs of the experiment, a simple structure consisting of a lumped mass overtopping a steel column on a concrete base was designed and assembled at the test site. In April 2022, a three-component instrumentation network was installed to record the seismic noise, weak earthquake motions, and active source signals to study the structure, the foundation, and the soil seismic responses. The experiment was designed to collect data that can be used for accurate dynamic characterization of the structure and analysis of wave propagation in the soil-structure system.
Authors
- Stefano Parolai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9084-7488)
- Carla Barnaba (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3863-8969)
- Shoaib Ayjaz Mohammed (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4353-2173)
- Philippe Roux (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5639-8869)
- Bojana Petrović (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3985-2959)
- Chiara Amendola (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8149-6391)
- Alessio Compagno (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8390-6259)
- Dimitris Pitilakis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7363-3667)
- Stefano Maffione (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9269-3259)
- David Zuliani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8359-040X)
- Srihari Sangaraju (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6232-8288)
- Anna Maria Skłodowska (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4931-8664)
- Fabio Meneghini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4752-2928)
- Valentin Schindelholz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1111-2751)
Institutions
- Federal Institute For Materials Research and Testing (DE)
- University of Trieste (IT)
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR)
- Institut des Sciences de la Terre (FR)
- GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences (DE)
- Université Gustave Eiffel (FR)
- National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (IT)
- Université Grenoble Alpes (FR)
- Politecnico di Milano (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Seismological Research Letters
- Published
- 2024-09-13
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1785/0220240018
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Seismic Waves and Analysis
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.53