Characterisation of underground blast-induced ground motions from large-scale field tests

Shock Waves

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 237-252

  Wu, C ^a   Lu, Y ^b   Hao, H ^a   Lim, W K ^b   Zhou, Y ^c   Seah, C C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Characterization; Ground motions; Underground blast

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242427522     PISSN: 09381287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00193-003-0212-3     Document Type: Article

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