Ground-motion amplification in nonlinear soil sites with uncertain properties

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2090-2109

  Bazzurro, Paolo ^a   Cornell, C Allin ^b  

^a Geodeco SpA   (Italy)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKES; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; ROCKS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

CYCLIC MOBILITY; GROUND-MOTION; NONLINEAR SOIL SITES; SOIL COLUMNS;

SOILS;

GROUND MOTION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SOIL PROPERTY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 14344266663     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120030215     Document Type: Article

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