Abstract

Damage to structures during near-fault earthquakes often indicates that the vertical component was larger than what is usually considered in seismic design. Commonly, the vertical component of seismic ground motions is associated with the P-wave. In contrast, the horizontal seismic ground motions’ component is usually related to the arrival of the S-wave. However, findings of recent near-fault events indicate that both the horizontal and the vertical motions are a mixture of S and P-waves. Therefore, the need to generate three-component artificial accelerograms for structural design arises. This paper proposes a double aim: starting from the well-noted Snell’s law, a physical explanation of the mixture of S and P-waves is outlined. Then, a novel integrodifferential filter system for the stochastic simulation of the three components of strong motion is presented. The proposed study is applied to some theoretical applications as well as to two real Italian seismic events.

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