Documentation and Theory Overview

RSSeismic is a one-dimensional site response analysis program for performing:

• 1-D nonlinear time domain analyses with and without pore water pressure generation
• 1-D equivalent linear frequency domain analyses including convolution and deconvolution
• 1-D linear time and frequency domain analyses

Getting Started

If you are a new user of RSSeismic, you should begin by completing the RSSeismic Tutorial 1 to help familiarize yourself with the software’s main functions.

How to Use this Guide

Documentation

The Documentation tab helps you to get familiar with program features and provides details on specific tools/functions of the software. This section includes topics like terminology, general features, input data, analysis methods, viewing and display options, and more.

Begin with the RSSeismic Overview page for an overview of the program.

Tutorials

The tutorials tab provides easy to follow, step-by-step instructions demonstrating how to use various features of the program and provide guidance for more specific analysis features of RSSeismic. It is recommended that you go through as many of the tutorials as possible to get acquainted with the many different capabilities of the software.

Begin with RSSeismic Tutorial 1 for an introduction to basic modelling and data interpretation features

Verification and Theory

The Theory and Verification tab contains a collection of Theory and Verification Manuals for the software. The Verification Examples represent an extensive set of models, from many different sources, which have been used to verify the accuracy of the solutions computed by the program.