A stochastic approach to site-response component in seismic ground motion coherency model

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 9-12, 2002, Pages 813-820

  Liao, S ^a   Li, J ^b  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Coherency function; Finite element wave analysis; Orthogonal polynomial expansion; Power spectral density; Pseudo excitation; Random media; Seismic ground motion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SEISMIC WAVES; SOILS;

GROUND MOTIONS;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC WAVE; SITE EFFECT;

EID: 0036817767     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0267-7261(02)00103-3     Document Type: Article

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