Quantifying nonlinearity susceptibility via site-response modeling uncertainty at three sites in the Los Angeles basin

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2364-2390

  Assimaki, Dominic ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Steidl, Jamison ^b   Schmedes, Jan ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BUILDING CODES; FORECASTING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RAILROAD TRACKS; SEISMIC DESIGN; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMOLOGY; SOILS; STRATIGRAPHY; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHERING;

AMPLIFICATION FACTORS; AREA OF INTERESTS; ATTENUATION RELATIONS; BROADBAND SIMULATIONS; BUILDING STRUCTURES; CLASS-E; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; FREQUENCY CONTENTS; FREQUENCY INDICES; GROUND MOTIONS; GROUND RESPONSES; INCREMENTAL; LOS ANGELES BASINS; MODELING UNCERTAINTIES; MOTION CHARACTERISTICS; MOTION INTENSITIES; MOTION PREDICTIONS; MOTION SIMULATIONS; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR; NONLINEAR GROUNDS; NONLINEAR MODELS; PARAMETRIC STUDIES; PEAK AMPLITUDES; PREDICTION ACCURACIES; RESONANT FREQUENCIES; RESPONSE ANALYSIS; RESPONSE ESTIMATES; SEISMIC DESIGN CODES; SEISMIC MOTIONS; SITE CONDITIONS; SITE EFFECTS; SOIL CONDITIONS; SOIL FORMATIONS; SOIL PROFILES; STANDARDIZED PROCEDURES; SURFACE SOILS; SYNTHETIC GROUND MOTIONS; SYNTHETIC SIMULATIONS; TIME HISTORIES; UNIFIED METHODOLOGIES;

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GROUND MOTION; RESPONSE ANALYSIS; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SITE EFFECT; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL PROFILE; STIFFNESS;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 54949090355     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080031     Document Type: Article

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