About IMSURF

IM-SURF is a research project funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR). It studies the impact and mitigation of seismic surface waves on large 3D structures, building on the earlier ANR MODULATE project.

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Consortium

The project brings together three public institutions (BRGM, CentraleSupélec, ENSTA), a commercial partner (GDS), and an international institution (UC-Davis)

GDS Coordinator · WP1 & WP5 BRGM Seismology · WP2 ENSTA Paris Wave propagation · WP3 CentraleSupélec Numerical SSI · WP4 UC Davis International collaborator

External sites: GDS · BRGM · ENSTA Paris · CentraleSupélec · UC Davis

Program

The proposed project is divided into 5 Work Packages (WP). Each WP contains tasks with detailed actions, milestones and deliverables.

Each WP has a partner as responsible Leader, who coordinates the tasks of the WP.

Working Packages

• WP1 - Project Management and Dissemination of results
• WP2 - Enrichment of existing strong motion databases for surface wave studies
• WP3 - Numerical techniques for obtaining full 3D wave regimes from the geological to the geotechnical scale
• WP4 - Development of numerical techniques for seismic SSI calculations with complete wave regime and presence of strong nonlinearities in the near field
• WP5 - Seismic performance of structures of large dimensions subjected to the incidence of “3D” motions with surface waves

The following figure presents the global flowchart of IM-SURF project with the role of each partner of the research consortium.

WP Data Repository

Access the IM-SURF WP1–WP5 data folders and the MODULATE project data from one directory.

Open the data repository

Publications

Read our latest scientific outputs, including peer-reviewed papers and conference presentations.

Different strategies are pursued in order to ensure a rapid transfer of the results, in particular to public authorities and to the scientific and engineering communities. Specifically:

• Publications of project's reports
• Progress meetings during the project
• Presentations and sessions in national and international conferences
• Publications in scientific international journals

Project Video: Preliminary Modeling of P-wave Propagation in Homogeneous Soil

Stage GDS: ISS modeling for large civil engineering structures.

By: Tanguy Ramanantsoavina · more videos

Contact

For more information about the IMSURF project, please contact us at:

Email: charisis.chatzigogos@geodynamique.com

Project Coordinator: Dr. Charisis Chatzigogos

Company: Géodynamique et Structures