Near-fault ground motions with prominent acceleration pulses: Pulse characteristics and ductility demand

Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 215-223

  Tong, Mai ^a   Rzhevsky, Vladimir ^a   Dai, Junwu ^b   Lee, George C ^a   Qi, Jincheng ^a   Qi, Xiaozhai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Acceleration pulse; Ductility demand spectrum; Near fault ground motions

Indexed keywords

DUCTILITY; REINFORCED CONCRETE; VELOCITY CONTROL;

ACCELERATION PULSES; DUCTILITY DEMAND SPECTRUM; NEAR FAULT GROUND MOTIONS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 38849141699     PISSN: 16713664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11803-007-0762-y     Document Type: Article

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