Evaluating empirical regression equations for Vs and estimating Vs30 in northeastern Taiwan

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 431-439

  Kuo, Chun Hsiang ^a   Wen, Kuo Liang ^a,b   Hsieh, Hung Hao ^a   Chang, Tao Ming ^a   Lin, Che Min ^a   Chen, Chun Te ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; MULTIVARIABLE ANALYSIS; NORTHEASTERN TAIWAN; REGRESSION EQUATION; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; SITE CLASSIFICATION; STRONG MOTION; WAVE AMPLIFICATION;

EXTRAPOLATION; SEISMIC WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AMPLIFICATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; S-WAVE; SEDIMENT; WAVE VELOCITY;

TAIPEI BASIN; TAIWAN;

EID: 78650584059     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2010.09.012     Document Type: Article

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