Analysis of RC building dynamic response and soil-building resonance based on data recorded during a damaging earthquake (Molise, Italy, 2002)

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1943-1953

  Mucciarelli, Marco ^a,c   Masi, Angelo ^a   Gallipoli, Maria Rosaria ^a,b   Harabaglia, Paolo ^a   Vona, Marco ^a   Ponzo, Felice ^a   Dolce, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; REINFORCED CONCRETE; RESONANCE; SEDIMENTS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOLOGY; SHOCK WAVES; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

AFTERSHOCKS; HORIZONTAL-TO VERTICAL SPECTRAL RATIO (HVSR); SEISMIC RECORDING; SHORT-TIME FOURIER TRANSFORMS (STFT);

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; REINFORCED CONCRETE; RESONANCE; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SOIL DYNAMICS; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MOLISE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 12144283021     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/012003186     Document Type: Article

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