Evaluation of earthquake ground motions to predict cracking response of gravity dams

Engineering Structures

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 227-239

  Leger P ^a   Leclerc, M ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cracking; Earthquake response; Gravity dams; Input accelerograms

Indexed keywords

DAM FRACTURE; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC RESPONSE;

ACCELERATION; CONCRETE DAMS; CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); FOURIER TRANSFORMS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

CRACKING RESPONSE; CREST DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTION; FOURIER SPECTRUM COEFFICIENTS; INPUT ACCELEROGRAMS; SEISMIC ENERGY RESPONSE; SEISMIC SAFETY EVALUATION;

GRAVITY DAMS;

EID: 0029668637     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0141-0296(95)00146-8     Document Type: Article

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