Considerations on seismic microzonation in areas with two-dimensional hills

Journal of Earth System Science

Volumn 117, Issue SUPPL.2, 2008, Pages 783-796

  Kamalian, Mohsen ^a   Sohrabi Bidar, Abdollah ^a   Razmkhah, Arash ^b   Taghavi, Amirata ^c   Rahmani, Iraj ^d  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING AND SEISMOLOGY IIEES   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^d Transportation Research Institute Tehran   (Iran)

Author keywords

Amplification; Characteristic period; Design spectra; Microzonation; Shape of the hill; Shape ratio; Site effect; Topography effect; Two dimensional hill

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; GROUND MOTION; HILL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; POISSON RATIO; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVE; SITE EFFECT; SOIL PROFILE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 70350676255     PISSN: 02534126     EISSN: 02534126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12040-008-0069-z     Document Type: Article

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