Simplified Boundary Element Method for Kinematic Response of Single Piles in Two-Layer Soil

Table 2

Ground motions employed in the parametric analysis.

Earthquake	Record label	𝑀𝑤	PGA (g)	𝑇𝑝 (sec)	𝑇𝑚 (sec)
Whittier Narrows 1987/10/01	A-TOR180	6.0	0.05	0.24	0.42
Kobe 1995/01/16	KJM000	6.9	0.82	0.34	0.64
Imperial Valley 1940/05/19	I-ELC180	7.0	0.31	0.46	0.53
ShangHai3-Elcentrol (IV Site)	Artificial3		0.35	0.58	0.82
Friuli 1976/05/06	A-TMZ270	6.5	0.32	0.64	0.50
ShangHai2 (IV Site)	Artificial2		0.35	0.72	0.75

𝑇_𝑝: predominant period and 𝑇_𝑚: mean period.