Canyon topography effects on ground motion at Feitsui damsite

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 87-99

  Huang, Huey Chu ^a   Chiu, Hung Chie ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Canyon topography effects; Feitsui damsite; Ground motion

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION MEASUREMENT; ACCELEROMETERS; DATA PROCESSING; EARTHQUAKES; GROUND SUPPORTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS;

GROUND MOTION;

DAMS;

DAM; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC RESPONSE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

TAIWAN;

EID: 0033081221     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0267-7261(98)00042-6     Document Type: Article

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