International Forum on Engineering Decision Making

Liquefaction triggering assessments are typically performed for only individual locations, providing little or no information in regard to the expected extent of liquefaction events. The present paper proposes a method to quantify the potential extent of liquefaction by accounting for spatial dependence of soil properties and potential future earthquake shaking. Random field theory and geostatistics tools are used to model soil properties and earthquake shaking intensity; this approach facilitates incorporation of measurement …