Structural responses to non-uniformly modulated evolutionary random seismic excitations

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 605-616

  Lin, J H ^a   Sun, D K ^a   Sun, Y ^a   Williams, F W ^b  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Evolutionary; Random; Response; Seismic; Structures

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EARTHQUAKES; ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SEISMIC WAVES; SHEAR STRESS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

POWER SPECTRAL DENSITIES; SEISMIC RESPONSES;

SEISMOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; SEISMIC RESPONSE; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE;

EID: 0031208577     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0887(199708)13:8<605::AID-CNM75>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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