Soil classifications for estimating site-dependent response spectra and seismic coefficients for building code provisions in western Kentucky

Engineering Geology

Volumn 46, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 331-347

  Street, R ^a   Woolery, E ^a   Wang, Z ^a   Harik, I E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Building code provisions; Seismic coefficients; Site dependent response spectra; Soil classification; Western Kentucky

Indexed keywords

BUILDING CODES; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); SEISMIC WAVES; SOILS;

SEISMIC COEFFICIENTS; SITE-DEPENDENT RESPONSE SPECTRA; SOIL CLASSIFICATION;

SEISMOLOGY;

BUILDING CODE; EARTHQUAKE HAZARD; SEISMIC COEFFICIENT; SITE EFFECT; SOIL CLASSIFICATION;

USA, KENTUCKY;

EID: 0031190778     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0013-7952(97)00010-0     Document Type: Article

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