Public Domain Publications Soil Dynamics and Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering

• Applications with VERSAT-S2D, VERSAT-D2D, VERSAT-P3D

• Publications of Guoxi Wu

• Often Used References by Others

Earthquake Ground Motions - baseline corrected

• About Subduction Ground Motions

• 2010 Chile Maule M8.8 Records_13

• 2011 Japan Tohoku M9 Borehole Motion_29

• 2011 Japan Tohoku M9 Surface Motion_24

Wutec Engineering Reports:   

• WGI (Wutec Geotechnical International). 2022a. Finite Element Dynamic Analyses of Austrian Dam. Engineering Research Report No. WGI-220224  To download: 1)   2).    3). Note:  A link to download will be emailed to you.

• WGI (Wutec Geotechnical International). 2022b. Case Study of Lenihan Dam under the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake. Engineering Research Report No. WGI-220301   To download: 1)   2).    3).  see above note. 

Wutec's Slides and Posts:

• Wutec Presentation [57-Pages] on Wutec and Its Technology

• 2010 Soil Structure Interaction Seminar at University of BC

• 2010 Beijing Lecture on Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Practice in North America

• 2013 Keynote Lecture on Dynamic Analyses of an Earthfill Dam on Over-Consolidated Silt with Cyclic Strain Softening

• 2014-Summer: Dr Wu Point Of View - Modal Period Time History in Nonlinear Analysis

• 2014-Fall: Dr Wu Point Of View - A Probability Approach to Structural Response from both Crustal and Subduction Earthquakes

• 2017 Case History Analysis of the Upper San Fernando Dam under the 1971 San Fernando Earthquake

• 2017.09 Lecture for BC Hydro Engineering: STATIC AND SEISMIC PRESSURES FOR DESIGN OF RETAINING WALLS

• 2017.11 Lecture for Vancouver Geotechnical Society (VGS): PROBABILITY APPROACH FOR GROUND AND STRUCTURE RESPONSE TO GSC 2015 SEISMIC HAZARD INCLUDING CRUSTAL AND SUBDUCTION EARTHQUAKE SOURCES

• 2018.June Presentation on 25th Vancouver Geotechnical Society (VGS) Symposium in Vancouver, Canada. Probabilistic Approach to Design of Seismic Upgrade to Withstand both Crustal and Subduction Earthquake Sources

• 2019.03 Comparison of SHAKE and VERSAT-1D for 1D Soil Column on "Elastic Base"

• 2017-2021 University of BC Lecture on Dynamic Effective Stress Analysis using Finite Element Approach

• 2021.May-28 Presentation on 27th Vancouver Geotechnical Society (VGS) Symposium in Vancouver, Canada. Reliability-based dynamic analyses for seismic design optimization in British Columbia (_view paper_)

Examples of Some Published Results:

1. Seismic soil pressures on rigid walls with sloped backfills (Wu  2010)



2. Dynamic Analysis for Seismic Design of Bridge Deck - Piles - Soil Interactions (Wu et al. 2006)