New Site Coefficients and Site Classification System Used in Recent Building Seismic Code Provisions

Earthquake Spectra

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 41-67

  Dobry, R ^a   Borcherdt, R D ^b   Crouse, C B ^c   Idriss, I M ^d   Joyner, W B ^b   Martin, G R ^e   Power, M S ^f   Rinne, E E ^g   Seed, R B ^d  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c Dames and Moore   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e University of Southern California   (United States)

^f Geomatrix Consultants   (United States)

^g KLEINFELDER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; AMPLITUDE; BUILDING CODE; CLASSIFICATION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DESIGN; SEISMIC HAZARD; SHEAR STRENGTH; SITE CHARACTERIZATION;

EID: 0003052278     PISSN: 87552930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1193/1.1586082     Document Type: Article

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