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Abstract:
Hudson Geotechnics will present a challenging geotechnical project: the Landmark II tower in Los Angeles. The project employed Performance Based Design using Conditional Mean Spectra and Time Series, for both the new tower and the existing tower at the site. Also, placing the new tower within the existing basement involved extremely complex shoring to retain the existing basement walls and other projects within the structure to retain full function of the existing complex during construction of the new tower.
In addition, the presentation will discuss advances in the state of knowledge and methodologies for geotechnical earthquake engineering: in particular the newest methods in liquefaction models (Next Generation Liquefaction), which implement Bayes theory to separate conditional probabilities of liquefaction susceptibility, triggering, and manifestation while also including contribution to manifestation of the entire profile rather than one critical layer.
Martin Hudson: Martin (Marty) Hudson has over 30 years of industry experience covering a variety of building types, sizes and market sectors. Dr. Hudson is a Licensed Civil and Geotechnical Engineer. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles and Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of California, Davis.
Kenneth Hudson: Kenneth (Ken) Hudson is a specialist in geology, strong ground motions, and engineering seismology. He obtained a BS in Earth Science with emphases in geology and geophysics and a MS in geophysics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Hudson obtained an MS and PhD in Geotechnical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.