Side effect of using response spectral amplification ratios for soil sites-variability and earthquake-magnitude and source-distance dependent amplification ratios for soil sites

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1262-1273

  Zhao, John X ^a   Zhang, Jian ^b   Irikura, Kojiro ^c  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c AICHI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Site amplification; Variability in amplification ratios

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION RATIO; ATTENUATION MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL PROCEDURES; DESIGN SPECTRUM; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDES; ENGINEERING MODELS; NATURAL PERIOD; NUMERICAL MODELLING; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; SHALLOW SOILS; SHEAR-WAVE VELOCITY; SIDE EFFECT; SIMPLE MODEL; SITE AMPLIFICATION; SOFT SOILS; SOIL LAYER; SOIL MODEL; SOIL NONLINEAR RESPONSE; SOIL SITES; SPECTRAL AMPLIFICATION; STRONG-MOTION; SUBDUCTION EARTHQUAKES; VARIABILITY IN AMPLIFICATION RATIOS;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; MODELS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; SHEAR WAVES; SOILS;

AMPLIFICATION;

AMPLIFICATION; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC SOURCE; SITE EFFECT; SOIL DYNAMICS; STRONG MOTION; SUBDUCTION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE VELOCITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 67349164306     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2009.02.005     Document Type: Article

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