摘要: |
Soil liquefaction is a significant threat to post-earthquake mobility across nearly
all modes of transportation. This Small Project will develop an open source, high-resolution model to probabilistically predict liquefaction regionally - at no cost to the user - both in future scenario earthquakes (to inform mitigation and planning) or immediately following an event (to inform response and recovery).
This model will: (1) predict subsurface test measurements via remotely-sensed predictor variables and machine- and/or deep-learning models; (2) be anchored to a mechanics-based framework for predicting liquefaction via subsurface test data, thus physically constraining the predictions; (3) have rapid capabilities, providing regional predictions minutes after an earthquake.
The model would first be implemented in PacTrans Region 10 using PNW data, but would be scalable to a larger study, and transferrable globally. In addition to providing the model to the transportation industry (via matlab and python code, and as windows-executable software), the project will use the model to simulate Region 10 events. |