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-2024 [56-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"

• 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 (Download paper_) VGS-Youtube_VideoRecord

• 2022.Sept-16 Presentation on 28th Vancouver Geotechnical Society (VGS) Symposium in Vancouver, Canada. Case Study of the Austrian Dam under the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake and its Implication to Seismic Analysis in BC

• 2017-2023 University of BC Lecture on Dynamic Effective Stress Analysis using Finite Element Approach

Examples of Some Published Results:

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