Environmental contour analysis in earthquake engineering

Engineering Structures

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1661-1676

  Van De Lindt, J W ^a   Niedzwecki, J M ^b  

^a Michigan Technological University   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation relations; Earthquake engineering; Environmental contours; Magnitude; Reliability; Response spectrum; Site to source distance

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; CIVIL ENGINEERING; DYNAMIC LOADS; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY; SEISMOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTOURS ANALYSIS; INVERSE FIRST ORDER RELIABILITY METHOD; RESPONSE SPECTRUM; SITE TO SOURCE DISTANCE;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

ACCELERATION; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; LOADING; SEISMIC DESIGN;

EID: 0034581181     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-0296(99)00114-5     Document Type: Article

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