Near-field effects on seismically excited highway bridge equipped with nonlinear viscous dampers

Bridge Structures

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 307-318

  Tan, P ^a   Agrawal, A K ^a   Pan, Y ^a  

^a City College of the City University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Highway bridges; Near field effects; Nonlinear viscous dampers; Pulse type ground motion

Indexed keywords

NEAR FIELD EFFECT; NEAR-FIELD GROUND MOTIONS; NONLINEAR VISCOUS DAMPERS; PEAK GROUND ACCELERATION; PEAK GROUND VELOCITY; PULSE-TYPE GROUND MOTIONS; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SYNTHETIC GROUND MOTIONS;

BRIDGES;

HIGHWAY BRIDGES;

EID: 33750824693     PISSN: 15732487     EISSN: 17448999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15732480500272718     Document Type: Conference Paper

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