Verification of precarious rock methodology using shake table tests of rocks models

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 9-12, 2002, Pages 917-922

  Anooshehpoor, Abdolrasool ^a   Brune, James N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Precarious rocks; Seismic hazard; Shake table tests; Strong motion

Indexed keywords

MAPS; ROCKS; SEISMOLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

SEISMOSCOPES;

EARTHQUAKES;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; NUMERICAL METHOD; ROCKFALL; SEISMIC HAZARD; SHAKING TABLE TEST; TOPPLING;

EID: 0036818098     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0267-7261(02)00115-X     Document Type: Article

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