Evaluation of equivalent lateral force procedure in estimating seismic isolator displacements

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1036-1042

  Ozdemir, Gokhan ^a   Constantinou, Michael C ^a  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; BASE SHEAR; BI-DIRECTIONAL; GROUND EXCITATION; GROUND MOTIONS; LATERAL FORCE; NEAR-FIELD CHARACTERISTICS; NONLINEAR RESPONSE HISTORY ANALYSIS; SEISMIC ISOLATOR; SHEAR FORCE; SIMPLIFIED METHOD; SOFT SOILS;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

BUILDING CODE; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC DESIGN; SEISMIC ISOLATION; SOFT SOIL; STIFFNESS;

EID: 77954757270     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2010.04.015     Document Type: Article

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