The effectiveness of wave barriers on the dynamic stiffness coefficients of foundations using boundary element method

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 683-699

  Celebi E ^a   Firat, S ^a   Cankaya I ^a  

^a SAKARYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Boundary element method; Impedance functions; Substructuring approach; Trench barrier

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMIC LOADS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; FUNCTION EVALUATION;

IMPEDANCE FUNCTIONS; SUBSTRUCTURING APPROACH; TRENCH BARRIERS; WAVE BARRIERS;

STIFFNESS;

EID: 33748967354     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2006.01.008     Document Type: Article

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