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Luis Fabian Bonilla

Luis Fabian Bonilla

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Earth Science

D-Index
31
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4032
World Ranking
8917
National Ranking
728

Overview

Luis Fabian Bonilla is affiliated with Université Gustave Eiffel in France, contributing to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Engineering. Their research primarily focuses on geophysics and civil and structural engineering, with additional work involving artificial intelligence, atomic and molecular physics, optics, and areas related to management, monitoring, policy, and law.

The scientist's main topics of study include:

  • Seismic Waves and Analysis
  • Seismic Performance and Analysis
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Seismology and Earthquake Studies
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Structural Health Monitoring Techniques
  • Landslides and Related Hazards

Bonilla has frequently published in several venues, the most prominent being Geophysical Journal International, where they have contributed to 10 publications. Other venues with multiple contributions include the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, the Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, arXiv (Cornell University), and Geophysical Research Letters.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Bonilla include:

  • "Detailed space-time variations of the seismic response of the shallow crust to small earthquakes from analysis of dense array data" (2020, Geophysical Journal International)
  • "Nonlinear Earthquake Response of Marine Sediments With Distributed Acoustic Sensing" (2022, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • "Effects of Nonlinear Soil Behavior on Kappa (κ): Observations from the KiK-Net Database" (2021, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America)
  • "Simulation of Topography Effects on Rockfall-Generated Seismic Signals: Application to Piton de la Fournaise Volcano" (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth)
  • "Profiling the Quito basin (Ecuador) using seismic ambient noise" (2021, Geophysical Journal International)

Their collaborative work involves frequent co-authors such as Étienne Bertrand, Chunyang Ji, Ashly Cabas, Céline Gélis, and Patrick Draper with multiple joint publications. This network supports interdisciplinary research across several related scientific domains.

Through their extensive research output and publication record, Luis Fabian Bonilla contributes to advancing the understanding of seismic phenomena, including wave propagation, earthquake response, and structural health monitoring. Their work integrates knowledge from geophysics and engineering to address complex challenges in earthquake and tectonic studies.

Best Publications

  • Site amplification in the San Fernando Valley, California: Variability of site-effect estimation using the S-wave, coda, and H/V methods

    Luis Fabián Bonilla;Jamison H. Steidl;Grant T. Lindley;Alexei G. Tumarkin

  • Analysis of Single-Station Standard Deviation Using the KiK-net Data

    Adrian Rodriguez-Marek;Gonzalo A. Montalva;Fabrice Cotton;Fabian Bonilla

  • Hysteretic and Dilatant Behavior of Cohesionless Soils and Their Effects on Nonlinear Site Response: Field Data Observations and Modeling

    Luis Fabián Bonilla;Ralph J. Archuleta;Daniel Lavallée

  • Borehole Response Studies at the Garner Valley Downhole Array, Southern California

    Luis Fabián Bonilla;Jamison H. Steidl;Jean-Christophe Gariel;Ralph J. Archuleta

  • Site effect evaluation in the basin of Santiago de Chile using ambient noise measurements

    Sylvette Bonnefoy-Claudet;Stéphane Baize;Luis Fabian Bonilla;Catherine Berge-Thierry

  • Prediction of nonlinear soil effects

    Stephen Hartzell;L. F. Bonilla;Robert A. Williams

  • Assessing Nonlinear Behavior of Soils in Seismic Site Response: Statistical Analysis on KiK‐net Strong‐Motion Data

    Julie Régnier;Héloïse Cadet;Luis Fabian Bonilla;Etienne Bertrand

  • Nonstationary Stochastic Simulation of Strong Ground Motion Time Histories Including Natural Variability: Application to the K-Net Japanese Database

    Guillaume Pousse;Luis Fabián Bonilla;Fabrice Cotton;Ludovic Margerin

  • Predominant-period site classification for response spectra prediction equations in Italy

    Carola Di Alessandro;Luis Fabian Bonilla;David M. Boore;Antonio Rovelli

  • International Benchmark on Numerical Simulations for 1D, Nonlinear Site Response (PRENOLIN): Verification Phase Based on Canonical Cases

    Julie Régnier;Luis Fabian Bonilla;Pierre Yves Bard;Etienne Bertrand

  • A Study on the Variability of Kappa (κ) in a Borehole: Implications of the Computation Process

    O.‐J. Ktenidou;C. Gélis;L.‐F. Bonilla

  • On the Discrepancy of Recent European Ground-Motion Observations and Predictions from Empirical Models: Analysis of KiK-net Accelerometric Data and Point-Sources Stochastic Simulations

    F. Cotton;G. Pousse;F. Bonilla;F. Scherbaum

  • A κ Model for Mainland France

    John Douglas;Pierre Gehl;Luis Fabian Bonilla;Céline Gélis

  • Rock and Stiff‐Soil Site Amplification: Dependency on VS30 and Kappa (κ0)

    Aurore Laurendeau;Fabrice Cotton;Olga Ktenidou;Luis Fabian Bonilla

  • Prenolin: International benchmark on 1D nonlinear: Site-response analysis—validation phase exercise

    Julie Régnier;Luis Fabian Bonilla;Pierre Yves Bard;Etienne Bertrand

  • Nonlinear site response evidence of K-NET and KiK-net records from the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake

    Luis Fabián Bonilla;Kenichi Tsuda;Nelson Pulido;Julie Régnier

  • Site classification using horizontal-to-vertical response spectral ratios and its impact when deriving empirical ground-motion prediction equations

    Yoshimitsu Fukushima;Luis Fabián Bonilla;Oona Scotti;John Douglas

  • Friction weakening in granular flows deduced from seismic records at the Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat

    Clara Levy;Clara Levy;Anne Mangeney;Anne Mangeney;Fabian Bonilla;Fabian Bonilla;Clément Hibert

  • In Situ Assessment of the G–γ Curve for Characterizing the Nonlinear Response of Soil: Application to the Garner Valley Downhole Array and the Wildlife Liquefaction Array

    Johanes Chandra;Philippe Guéguen;Jamison H. Steidl;Luis Fabian Bonilla

  • Nonlinear Site Response: Where We're At (A report from a SCEC/PEER seminar and workshop)

    E. H. Field;S. Kramer;A.-W. Elgamal;J.D. Bray

  • Monitoring Coseismic Temporal Changes of Shallow Material during Strong Ground Motion with Interferometry and AutocorrelationMonitoring Coseismic Temporal Changes of Shallow Material during Strong Ground Motion

    Luis Fabian Bonilla;Philippe Guéguen;Yehuda Ben‐Zion

Frequent Co-Authors

John Douglas
John Douglas University of Strathclyde
Philippe Guéguen
Philippe Guéguen Grenoble Alpes University
Fabrice Cotton
Fabrice Cotton University of Potsdam
Ralph J. Archuleta
Ralph J. Archuleta University of California, Santa Barbara
Donat Fäh
Donat Fäh Swiss Seismological Service
Yehuda Ben-Zion
Yehuda Ben-Zion University of Southern California
Pierre-Yves Bard
Pierre-Yves Bard Grenoble Alpes University
Salvatore Martino
Salvatore Martino Sapienza University of Rome
Ahmed Elgamal
Ahmed Elgamal University of California, San Diego
Peter Moczo
Peter Moczo Comenius University

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