Analysis of amplification characteristics of ground motions in the heavily damaged belt zone during the 1995 Hyogo-ken Nanbu earthquake

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 377-393

  Motosaka, Masato ^a,b   Nagano, Masayuki ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAJIMA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Damaged belt zone; Deep irregular underground structure; Focusing effect; Hyogo ken Nanbu Earthquake; Hyperelement method; Wave propagation analysis

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMOLOGY; UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

AMPLIFICATION CHARACTERISTICS; DEEP IRREGULAR UNDERGROUND STRUCTURE; FOCUSING EFFECT; GROUND MOTIONS; HEAVILY DAMAGED BELT ZONE; HYOGO-KEN NANBU EARTHQUAKE; HYPERELEMENT METHOD; PEAK GROUND ACCELERATION DISTRIBUTION;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACCELERATION; AMPLIFICATION; GROUND MOTION; KOBE EARTHQUAKE 1995;

EID: 0031105065     PISSN: 00988847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9845(199703)26:3<377::AID-EQE649>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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