{"id":638,"date":"2018-02-15T18:54:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T18:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/?p=638"},"modified":"2025-03-06T18:12:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T18:12:36","slug":"update-to-wsliq-software-for-soil-liquifaction-hazard-evaluation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/unpublished\/update-to-wsliq-software-for-soil-liquifaction-hazard-evaluation\/","title":{"rendered":"Update to WSliq Software for Soil Liquefaction Hazard Evaluation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This project is updating and extending the capabilities of a computer program, WSliq, for evaluating soil liquefaction hazards.\u00a0 Probabilistic liquefaction hazard analysis (PLHA), developed previously for WSDOT and implemented in WSliq, has been recognized as an improved procedure for evaluating potential hazards from liquefaction.\u00a0 PLHA considers all peak ground surface acceleration and magnitude levels based on site-specific ground motion hazard data and weights the contributions of all according to their joint probability of occurrence.\u00a0 In doing so, it considers all possible earthquake scenarios and allows designs based on consistent likelihoods of triggering at all locations within the state. Because a number of changes have occurred in the geotechnical profession\u2019s understanding and treatment of liquefaction since the development of WSliq, this project is developing, implementing, and testing new PLHA procedures and updating the WSliq program to incorporate the resulting improvements.<\/p>\n<p>Principal Investigator: <a href=\"mailto:kramer@uw.edu\">Steven Kramer<\/a>, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UW<br \/>\nSponsor: WSDOT<br \/>\nWSDOT Technical Monitor: <a href=\"mailto:andrew.fiske@wsdot.wa.gov\">Andrew Fiske<\/a><br \/>\nWSDOT Project Manager: <a href=\"mailto:PeterJn@wsdot.wa.gov\">Jon Peterson<\/a><br \/>\nScheduled completion: September 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This project is updating and extending the capabilities of a computer program, WSliq, for evaluating soil liquefaction hazards.\u00a0 Probabilistic liquefaction hazard analysis (PLHA), developed previously for WSDOT and implemented in WSliq, has been recognized as an improved procedure for evaluating potential hazards from liquefaction.\u00a0 PLHA considers all peak ground surface acceleration and magnitude levels based &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/unpublished\/update-to-wsliq-software-for-soil-liquifaction-hazard-evaluation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Update to WSliq Software for Soil Liquefaction Hazard Evaluation<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unpublished"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3000,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/3000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}