Abstract
In this study, the analysis of the absorbing conditions of hysteresis energy of soil was made. The hysteresis energy is calculated using the results of numerical analysis and on-line earthquake response loading test. Especially, the effect of the characteristics of the input acceleration wave is considered.
As the analytical results, the following conclusions were obtained; when an input wave is narrow-banded wave that have one predominant component, the hysteresis energy is largest. And, in wide-banded wave, the hysteresis energy is very small.
