Seismic wave amplification: Basin geometry vs soil layering

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 7-10, 2005, Pages 529-538

  Semblat, J F ^a   Kham, M ^b   Parara, E ^a   Bard, P Y ^b   Pitilakis, K ^c   Makra, K ^d   Raptakis, D ^c  

^a Lab Central des Ponts et Chaussees   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d Institute of Engineering Seismology and Earthquake Engineering Thessaloniki   (Greece)

Author keywords

2D Modeling; Amplification; Basin effects; BEM; Euroseitest; Seismic waves; Site effects; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; GEOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC WAVES; SOILS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BASIN EFFECTS; SITE EFFECTS; SOIL LAYERING;

SEISMOLOGY;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; AMPLIFICATION; BASIN; LAYERED MEDIUM; SEISMIC WAVE; SITE EFFECT;

EID: 24344506223     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2004.11.003     Document Type: Article

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