Performance of a seismically isolated bridge under near-fault earthquake ground motions

Journal of Structural Engineering

Volumn 130, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 861-868

  Shen, Jerry ^a,b   Tsai, Meng Hao ^b,c   Chang, Kuo Chun ^d,e   Lee, George C ^b,d  

^a LENDIS Corporation   (United States)

^b the State University of New York   (United States)

^c China Engineering Consultants Inc   (Taiwan)

^d Dept of Civil Engineering ^*  (United States)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bearing capacity; Bridges; Earthquakes; Isolation; Lead; Rubber

Indexed keywords

GROUND MOTION; ISOLATION; VELOCITY PULSES; VELOCITY WAVES;

ACCELERATION; BEARING CAPACITY; EARTHQUAKES; LEAD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONITORING; RUBBER; SEISMOLOGY; VIBRATION CONTROL;

BRIDGES;

EID: 13944273689     PISSN: 07339445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9445(2004)130:6(861)     Document Type: Article

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