Required separation distance between decks and at abutments of a bridge crossing a canyon site to avoid seismic pounding

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 303-323

  Bi, Kaiming ^a   Hao, Hong ^a   Chouw, Nawawi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Dynamic characteristic; MEJ; Required separation distance; Site effect; Spatial variation; Stochastic method

Indexed keywords

ABUTMENTS (BRIDGE); AMPLIFICATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; EXPANSION JOINTS; SEISMOLOGY; SOILS; SPECTRAL DENSITY; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; STREAM FLOW; TRAFFIC SURVEYS;

DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS; SEPARATION DISTANCES; SITE EFFECTS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; STOCHASTIC METHODS;

BRIDGE DECKS;

BRIDGE; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; GROUND MOTION; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; SEISMIC DESIGN; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SITE EFFECT; SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; STOCHASTICITY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE; TRANSFER FUNCTION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 77952924549     PISSN: 00988847     EISSN: 10969845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eqe.943     Document Type: Article

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