Induced dynamic nonlinear ground response at Gamer Valley, California

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1412-1428

  Lawrence, Zack ^a   Bodin, Paul ^b   Langston, Charles A ^a   Pearce, Fred ^c   Gomberg, Joan ^b   Johnson, Paul A ^d   Menq, Farn Yuh ^e   Brackman, Thomas ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^f NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; CIVIL ENGINEERING; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; ESTIMATION; EXPERIMENTS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; LANDFORMS; PHASE VELOCITY; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHEAR STRAIN; SHEAR WAVES; SOIL MECHANICS; SOILS; SPEED; SURFACE WAVES; TRUCKS; VELOCITY;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; (P ,P ,T) MEASUREMENTS; CALIFORNIA; DEPTH DEPENDENCE; ELASTIC MODELING; FORCE LOAD; G ACCELERATION; GROUND MOTIONS; IN ORDER; IN-SITU; NETWORK FOR EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING SIMULATION (NEES); NONLINEAR CHANGES; NONLINEAR GROUND; NONLINEAR SOIL PROPERTIES; RAYLEIGH SURFACE WAVES; RAYLEIGH WAVE PHASE VELOCITY; S-WAVE VELOCITIES; SEDIMENT PROPERTIES; SHEAR MODULUS REDUCTION; SOIL DYNAMICS; SURFACE STRAINING; VELOCITY DISPERSION; VELOCITY STRUCTURES; WAVE FIELDS; WAVE VELOCITY (IGC:D7);

WAVES;

GROUND MOTION; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SHAKING TABLE TEST; SHEAR MODULUS; SOIL DYNAMICS;

CALIFORNIA; GARNER VALLEY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 46149114629     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120070124     Document Type: Article

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