Sensitivity study of physical limits on ground motion at Yucca Mountain

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2995-3019

  Duan, Benchun ^a   Day, Steven M ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHESIVE STRENGTH; COSEISMIC SLIPS; DEEP FAULT; EARTHQUAKE MODELS; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT MODEL; FAULT PLANES; FAULT ROCK; FAULT ZONE; FLUID PRESSURES; GROUND MOTION PARAMETERS; GROUND MOTIONS; INELASTIC DEFORMATION; INELASTIC STRAIN; LOWER STRESS; MODEL PARAMETERS; PEAK GROUND VELOCITY; PHYSICAL LIMITS; POROELASTIC; POROELASTIC RESPONSE; PRESSURE RESPONSE; ROCK STRENGTH; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SHALLOW GEOLOGIC UNITS; SHORT PERIODS; SPECTRAL ACCELERATION; STRESS DROP; UNDRAINED; YUCCA MOUNTAIN; YUCCA MOUNTAIN , NEVADA;

ADHESION; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; LANDFORMS; STRAIN; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

MODELS;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT ZONE; GROUND MOTION; NORMAL FAULT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRAIN;

NEVADA; UNITED STATES; YUCCA MOUNTAIN;

EID: 78650113601     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090372     Document Type: Article

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