Quantitative comparison of four numerical predictions of 3D ground motion in the Grenoble Valley, France

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1427-1455

  Chaljub, Emmanuel ^a   Moczo, Peter ^b   Tsuno, Seiji ^a   Bard, Pierre Yves ^a   Kristek, Jozef ^b   Käser, Martin ^c   Stupazzini, Marco ^d   Kristekova, Miriam ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^e INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE VALLEYS; BASIC FORMULATION; COMPLEX 3D GEOMETRY; COMPUTER RESOURCES; DAMPING PROPERTY; DIFFERENT STRUCTURE; DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHODS; EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTIONS; EXTENDED SOURCES; FINITE-DIFFERENCE SCHEME; GRENOBLE; GROUND MOTIONS; HIGH-ORDER DERIVATIVE; MESHING STRATEGIES; NUMERICAL DISPERSIONS; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ON TIME; POINT SOURCES; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; SEM; SPECTRAL ELEMENT METHOD; STAGGERED GRID; VISUAL INSPECTION; WAVE RADIATION;

FORECASTING; GALERKIN METHODS; LANDFORMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

NUMBER THEORY;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMPING; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FAULT GEOMETRY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GALERKIN METHOD; GROUND MOTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEISMIC RESPONSE; STRONG MOTION;

FRANCE; GRENOBLE; ISERE; RHONE-ALPES;

EID: 77955322048     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090052     Document Type: Article

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