Nonlinear soil response - A reality?

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1964-1978

  Beresnev, Igor A ^a   Wen, Kuo Liang ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

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