COMPARISON OF EQUIVALENT LINEAR AND NON LINEAR METHODS ON GROUND RESPONSE ANALYSIS: CASE STUDY AT WEST BANGKA SITE

Abstract

COMPARISON OF EQUIVALENT LINEAR AND NON LINEAR METHODS ON GROUND RESPONSE ANALYSIS: CASE STUDY AT WEST BANGKA SITE. Within the framework of identifying NPP sites, site surveys are performed in West Bangka (WB), Bangka-Belitung Island Province. Ground response analysis of a potential site has been carried out using peak strain profiles and peak ground acceleration. The objective of this research is to compare Equivalent Linear (EQL) and Non Linear (NL) methods of ground response analysis on the selected NPP site (West Bangka) using DeepSoil software. Equivalent linear method is widely used because requires soil data in simple way and short time of computational process. On the other hand, non linear method is capable of representing the actual soil behaviour by considering non linear soil parameter.  The results showed that EQL method has similar trends to NL method. At surface layer, the acceleration values for EQL and NL methods are resulted as 0.425g and 0.375g respectively. NL method is more reliable in capturing higher frequencies of spectral acceleration compared to EQL method.