A coupled seismic-geotechnical approach to site-specific strong motion

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 259-272

  Heuze, François E ^a   Ueng, Tzou Shin ^a   Hutchings, Lawrence J ^a   Jarpe, Stephen P ^a   Kasameyer, Paul W ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bridges; Dynamic effective stress analysis; Earthquakes; Empirical Green's functions; Strong motion

Indexed keywords

BRIDGES; GREEN'S FUNCTION; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STRESS ANALYSIS; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

BEDROCK; SITE SPECIFIC GROUND MOTION;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE MOTION; SEISMICITY; SITE EFFECT; STRONG MOTION;

EID: 0031172657     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0267-7261(97)00001-8     Document Type: Article

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