Earthquake response of a base-isolated bridge subjected to strong near-fault ground motion

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 447-455

  Jónsson, Magni Hreinn ^a   Bessason, Bjarni ^a   Haflidason, Einar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b Public Roads Administration   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SEISMIC; BASE-ISOLATED BRIDGES; BRIDGE RESPONSE; EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE; EPICENTRE; EUROCODE 8; GROUND MOTIONS; ICELANDS; LONG BASE; NEAR FAULT GROUND MOTION; NEAR-FAULT; NUMERICAL MODELS; STRONG GROUND MOTION;

EARTHQUAKES;

BRIDGE; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; FAULT; GROUND MOTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC DESIGN; SEISMIC ISOLATION; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC ZONE;

ICELAND;

EID: 77249095302     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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