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  1. ckissick

    Questions about seismic parameters on very soft clay, based on ASCE 7-16

    MTNClimber, I used the website you referenced. And two others. They don't work on site class E soils. I could do it by hand, but the usual procedure is apparently no longer valid for E soils. Otherwise, I would get a result as I do using ASCE 7-10. I need to see Section 11.4.8 in ASCE...
  2. ckissick

    Any Engineering Geologists in the house?

    I'm from San Francisco and got my BA in Geology from UCSB. When it came time to get a master's in engineering geology, I decided on Imperial College of Science and Technology in far off London. It's the MIT of Europe with perhaps the best engineering geology program in the world. IMHO. It...
  3. ckissick

    Questions about seismic parameters on very soft clay, based on ASCE 7-16

    I'm working on a site in Foster City on very soft Bay Mud, site class E. In running the software to obtain the seismic parameters, I got the message, "null-See Section 11.4.8" for Sms, Sm1, Sds, and Sd1. I don't have a copy of ASCE 7-16. I found a paper on what to do, but it was unclear. Any...

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