Soil-structure system identification of Millikan Library North-South response during four earthquakes (1970-2002): What caused the observed wandering of the system frequencies?

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 2 A, 2009, Pages 626-635

  Todorovska, Maria I ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASE FREQUENCIES; CALIFORNIA; EARTHQUAKE RECORDS; HORIZONTAL SENSORS; MILLIKAN LIBRARY; RESONANT FREQUENCIES; RIGID BODY; ROCKING MOTION; SAN FERNANDO EARTHQUAKE; SOIL STRUCTURE SYSTEM; SYSTEM FREQUENCY; SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION METHODS; TRAVEL TIME;

FOURIER ANALYSIS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SOILS;

EARTHQUAKES;

AMPLITUDE; BUILDING; FOURIER TRANSFORM; GROUND MOTION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; STRONG MOTION; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE; TRAVEL TIME;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; PASADENA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67649999595     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080333     Document Type: Article

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