Papers from France

Plenary: THE CHALLENGE OF NONLINEAR SITE RESPONSE: FIELD DATA OBSERVATIONS AND NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS, Luis Fabian Bonilla, Celine Gelis, and Julie Reginier.

1.7 SEISMOMETRIC RECORDING OF HYPOGEOUS FAILURES DUE TO A ROCK MASS SPREADING IN CENTRAL APENNINES (ITALY), Luca Lenti, Salvatore Martino, Antonella Paciello, Alberto Prestininzi, and Stefano Rivellino.

2.2 RAYLEIGH-WAVE DISPERSION CURVE: A PROXY FOR SITE EFFECT ESTIMATION?, Heloise Cadet, Giovanna Cultrera, Valerio De Rubeis, Pierre-Yves Bard.

2.3 VELOCITY STRUCTURE INVERSION FROM HORIZONTAL TO VERTICAL (H/V) SPECTRAL RATIOS OF EARTHQUAKE MOTIONS, Ariane Ducellier, Hiroshi Kawase, and Shinichi Matsushima.

2.11 EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OF NONLINEAR SITE RESPONSE AT SEVERAL KIK-NET STATIONS, J. Regnier, L. F. Bonilla, E. Bertrand, and J. F. Semblat.

2.25 VARIABILITY OF KAPPA: A STUDY USING BOREHOLE RECORDS, Olga-Joan Ktenidou, Stella Arnaouti, Celine Gelis, and Luis-Fabian Bonilla.

3.1 RELEVANCE OF GROUND MOTION NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED SINCE THE ESG 2006 BENCHMARK?, Emmanuel Chaljub, Peter Moczo, Jozef Kristek, Pierre-Yves Bard, and Fabrice Hollender.

3.17 NUMERICAL MODELING OF SHAKING EFFECTS DUE TO STRONG MOTIONS ON THE TIBER ALLUVIAL DEPOSITS IN ROME (ITALY), Fabian Bonilla, Francesca Bozzano, Celine Gelis, Anna Chiara Giacomi, Luca Lenti, Salvatore Martino, Maria Paola Santisi d'Avila, and Jean-Francois Semblat.

3.19 NUMERICAL STUDY OF TOPOGRAPHICAL SITE EFFECTS BY A DISCONTINUOUS FINITE ELEMENT METHOD, Nathalie Glinsky and Etienne Bertrand.

3.23 EFFECT OF MATERIAL RHEOLOGY WHEN MODELING WAVE PROPAGATION IN COMPLEX MEDIA: A 2D P-SV CASE STUDY, Celine Gelis, Fabian Bonilla, and Peng-Cheng Liu.

3.28 ANALYSIS OF SEISMIC WAVES CROSSING THE SANTA CLARA BASIN USING THE THREE-COMPONENT MUSIQUE ARRAY ALGORITHMM, Manuel Hobiger, Cecile Cornou, Pierre-Yves Bard, and Nicolas Le Bihan.

4.10 SEISMOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS FOR SITE EFFECT INVESTIGATION IN NICE, FRANCE, Etienne Bertrand, Julie Regnier, Florence Binatier, Philippe Langlaude, and Michel Pernoud.

5.2 EFFECTS OF EXISTING LANDSLIDES ON SEISMICALLY-INDUCED DISPLACEMENTS DUE TO INPUT-SLOPE INTERACTIONS, Luca Lenti and Salvatore Martino.

5.33 CAN DAILY HIGH-VARIATION OF NOISE LEVEL ALTER RESULTS OF AMBIENT VIBRATION H/V TECHNIQUE?, Fabrice Hollender, Marie Andre, Cedric Guyonnet-Benaize, Cecile Cornou, Veronique Caillot, Pierre-Yves Bard.

6.6 USE OF SUBSIDENCE RATE AS PROXY FOR RESONANCE PERIOD, C. Cornou, S. Michel, E. Pathier, G. Menard, M. Collombet, P.-Y. Bard, B. Fruneau.

6.8 EVALUATING ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF DIFFERENT METHODS OF VELOCITY PROFILE CHARACTERIZATION: PRESENTATION OF AN UPCOMING PROJECT, Fabrice Hollender, Cecile Cornou, Matthias Ohrnberger, Walter Epting, and Pierre-Yves Bard.