Quantiles of critical separation distance for nonstationary seismic excitations

Engineering Structures

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 985-991

  Wang, S S ^a   Hong, H P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Nonstationary random process; Quantiles; Seismic pounding; Separation distance

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELIABILITY; SEISMOLOGY; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

COMPLETE QUADRATIC COMBINATION; NONSTATIONARY RANDOM PROCESS; SEISMIC EXCITATIONS; SEISMIC POUNDING;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

BUILDINGS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELIABILITY; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33644987282     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2005.11.003     Document Type: Article

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