Simulation of toppling columns in Archaeoseismology

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2855-2875

  Hinzen, Klaus G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING ELEMENT; DAMPING PARAMETERS; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; FRICTION COEFFICIENTS; GROUND MOTIONS; GROUND MOVEMENT; INPUT MOTIONS; MARBLE BLOCKS; MONOLITHIC COLUMNS; NUMERIC MODELING; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; QUASI-RANDOM; RECTANGULAR BLOCK; RIGID BLOCK; RIGID BLOCK MODEL; RIGID BODY; ROCKING BLOCK; ROCKING MOTION; SITE-SPECIFIC; SOURCE LOCATION; SOURCE MECHANISMS; STRONG-MOTION; SYNTHETIC GROUND MOTIONS; TRANSVERSE DIRECTIONS; VISCOELASTIC COUPLING;

DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EARTHQUAKES; FRICTION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DAMPING; DATA INVERSION; GROUND MOTION; MICROEARTHQUAKE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOSEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY; SOURCE PARAMETERS; STRONG MOTION;

EID: 70349863255     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080241     Document Type: Article

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