Critical building separation distance in reducing pounding risk under earthquake excitation

Structural Safety

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 287-303

  Hong, H P ^a   Wang, S S ^a   Hong, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b Department of Civil Engineering   (China)

Author keywords

Pounding; Random vibration; Reliability; Separation distance

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; VIBRATION MEASUREMENT;

CRITICAL BUILDING SEPERATION;

BUILDINGS;

BUILDING; SEISMIC POUNDING; SEISMIC RESPONSE;

EID: 0037411072     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4730(02)00080-2     Document Type: Article

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