Dynamic analysis of stacked rigid blocks

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 559-578

  Spanos, Pol D ^a   Roussis, Panayiotis C ^a   Politis, Nikolaos P A ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Impact problem; Nonlinearity; Patterns of motion; Seismic response; Stacked rigid blocks

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION;

GROUND EXCITATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; GROUND MOTION; NORTHRIDGE EARTHQUAKE 1994; SEISMIC RESPONSE; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE;

EID: 0035812325     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0267-7261(01)00038-0     Document Type: Article

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