Site effects and soil-structure interaction in the Valley of Mexico

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 29-39

  Avilés, Javier ^a   Pérez Rocha, Luis E ^b  

^a INSTITUTO MEXICANO DE TECNOLOGÍA DEL AGUA   (Mexico)

^b Ctro de Invest Sismica AC   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Code provisions; Site design spectra; Site effects; Site response spectra; Soil structure interaction; Spectral contours

Indexed keywords

BUILDING CODES; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC WAVES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE WAVES; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

SEISMIC CODES;

SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS;

ALLUVIUM; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SITE EFFECT; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTION; SOIL/STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

MEXICO, MEXICO CITY;

EID: 0041541729     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0267-7261(97)00027-4     Document Type: Article

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