Site coefficients for design of buildings in eastern United States

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 29-40

  Hwang, H H M ^a   Lin, Huijie ^a   Huo, Jun Rong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Building code; Earthquake motion; Response spectrum; Site coefficients; Soil profile

Indexed keywords

BUILDING CODES; BUILDINGS; EARTHQUAKES; PROBABILITY; STATISTICS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

RESPONSE SPECTRUM; SITE CATEGORIES; SITE COEFFICIENT; SOIL PROFILE;

EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE;

BUILDING CODE; EARTHQUAKE MOTION; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SITE EFFECT;

USA;

EID: 0031005558     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0267-7261(96)00031-0     Document Type: Article

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