Simulation of synthetic ground motions for specified earthquake and site characteristics

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1155-1180

  Rezaeian, Sanaz ^a   Kiureghian, Armen Der ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake ground motions; Model validation; NGA database; Simulation; Stochastic models; Strong motion records; Synthetic motions

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; EARTHQUAKES; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; SEISMIC DESIGN; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WAVE EQUATIONS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTIONS; MODEL VALIDATION; NGA DATABASE; SIMULATION; STRONG-MOTION; SYNTHETIC MOTIONS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

ACCELEROMETER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; GROUND MOTION; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; S-WAVE; SITE EFFECT; SITE INVESTIGATION; STOCHASTICITY; STRONG MOTION; WAVE VELOCITY; WHITE NOISE;

EID: 77956422837     PISSN: 00988847     EISSN: 10969845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eqe.997     Document Type: Article

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