Simulating the Effects of Site Geometry on Lateral Spread Displacements

This data set contains files from numerical simulations of free-face lateral spread sites that were analyzed using OpenSees. The main goals of this study were to investigate the effects of site geometry, soil relative density, and earthquake shaking characteristics on lateral spreading displacements. As such, the data set is split into two simulations: (1) A suite of 132 models were analyzed with one ground motion to investigate the effects of site geometry and soil relative density on lateral spread displacement patterns, (2) A subset of 6 of the site geometries from the first set of simulations was analyzed with 2 soil relative densities and 38 ground motions for a total of 456 models to study the effects of earthquake shaking characteristics on lateral spread displacements.