Buildings as a seismic source: Analysis of a release test at Bagnoli, Italy

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2457-2464

  Gallipoli, Maria Rosaria ^a,b   Mucciarelli, Marco ^a   Ponzo, Felice ^a   Dolce, Mauro ^a   D'Alema, Ezio ^c   Maistrello, Mariano ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; BUILDINGS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

FREE-FIELD GROUND MOTION; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SEISMIC SOURCE;

SEISMOLOGY;

ACCELEROMETER; DISPLACEMENT; GROUND MOTION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MULTISTOREY BUILDING; RAYLEIGH WAVE; REINFORCED CONCRETE; SEISMIC DESIGN; SEISMOGRAPH; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE; TESTING METHOD; VERTICAL MOVEMENT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BAGNOLI; CAMPANIA [ITALY]; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; NAPLES; NAPOLI [CAMPANIA]; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33846112972     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120060015     Document Type: Article

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