Case study of strong ground motion variations across cut slope

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 7-10, 2005, Pages 539-545

  Stewart, Jonathan P ^a   Sholtis, Shawn E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Site response; Soil structure interaction; Topography

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; GEOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

GROUND RESPONSE EFFECTS; SITE RESPONSE; STRONG GROUND MOTION VARIATIONS;

SEISMOLOGY;

GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SITE EFFECT; SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

EID: 24344449672     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2004.11.004     Document Type: Article

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