Amplification pattern of 2D semi-sine-shaped valleys subjected to vertically propagating incident waves

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 871-887

  Kamalian, Mohsen ^a   Gatmiri, Behrouz ^b,c   Sohrabi Bidar, Abdollah ^a   Khalaj, Ali ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING AND SEISMOLOGY IIEES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

Author keywords

Amplification; BEM; Semi sine shaped valley; Site effect; Time domain; Topography effect

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; GAIN MEASUREMENT; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

AMPLIFICATION PATTERN; INCIDENT WAVES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

AMPLIFICATION; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; GAIN MEASUREMENT; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 34548473106     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: 10990887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.933     Document Type: Article

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