Crustal structure beneath the Akashi Kaikyo bridge as revealed by explosion seismic experiments

Structural Engineering/Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1998, Pages

  Megawati, Kusnowidjaja ^a   Higashihara, Hiromichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Explosion seismic experiment; P wave velocity structure; Shallow crustal structure; The 1995 keihoku seidan profile; The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge

Indexed keywords

BRIDGES; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EXPLOSION TESTING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EXPLOSION SEISMIC EXPERIMENTS;

EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE;

EID: 0032042936     PISSN: 02898063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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