Dynamics of rigid bodies under pure rocking

WSEAS Transactions on Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1711-1716

  Baratta, A ^a   Corbi, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Dynamics; Experimental tests; Laboratory data; Non linear behaviour; Rigid blocks; Rocking response; Shaking table; Unilateral constraints

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; FOUNDATIONS; GEOMETRY;

EXPERIMENTAL TESTS; LABORATORY DATA; NON-LINEAR BEHAVIOUR; RIGID BLOCKS; ROCKING RESPONSE; SHAKING TABLE; UNILATERAL CONSTRAINTS;

DYNAMIC RESPONSE;

EID: 33746433527     PISSN: 11092777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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