Discussion of "The effect of energy concentration of earthquake ground motions on the nonlinear response of RC structures" by H. Cao, M.I. Friswell

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1181-1183

  Moustafa, Abbas ^a,b  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Minia University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Energy; Frequency content; Inelastic response; RC buildings; Resonant acceleration

Indexed keywords

ENERGY; FREQUENCY CONTENT; INELASTIC RESPONSE; RC BUILDINGS; RESONANT ACCELERATION;

BUILDING MATERIALS; CONCRETE BUILDINGS; EARTHQUAKES; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; REINFORCED CONCRETE; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

FREQUENCY RESPONSE;

BUILDING; ENERGY DISSIPATION; GROUND MOTION; NONLINEARITY; PEAK ACCELERATION; REINFORCED CONCRETE; RESPONSE ANALYSIS; SEISMIC RESPONSE; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 64549085930     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2009.02.004     Document Type: Article

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