Mitigation of the seismic motion near the edge of cliff-type topographies

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1082-1100

  Stamatopoulos, C A ^a   Bassanou, M ^a   Brennan, A J ^b   Madabhushi, G ^c  

^a Stamatopoulos and Associates Co Ltd   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

2D wave propagation; Anchors; Centrifuge tests; Cliff type topographies; Mitigation; Numerical analyses

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

CENTRIFUGE TESTS; CLIFF-TYPE TOPOGRAPHIES; SEISMIC MOTION;

SEISMIC WAVES;

ANCHOR; CENTRIFUGAL MODEL TEST; CLIFF; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MITIGATION; SEISMIC DESIGN; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 34748864780     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2007.01.012     Document Type: Article

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