A neural network based methodology to predict site-specific spectral acceleration values

Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 459-472

  Kamatchi, P ^a   Rajasankar, J ^a   Ramana, G V ^b   Nagpal, A K ^b  

^a CSIR STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

amplification factor; local soil conditions; neural network; response spectra

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTABLE LIMIT; AMPLIFICATION FACTORS; EQUIVALENT-LINEAR; FEED-FORWARD BACK PROPAGATION; GEOTECHNICAL DATA; GROUND MOTIONS; HIDDEN LAYERS; LOCAL SOIL CONDITIONS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; RESPONSE SPECTRA; SEISMIC ANALYSIS; SITE-SPECIFIC; SOIL AMPLIFICATION; SPECTRAL ACCELERATION; STRONG GROUND MOTION; TARGET PARAMETER; VULNERABLE REGIONS;

AMPLIFICATION; SEISMOLOGY; SOILS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 78751656023     PISSN: 16713664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11803-010-0041-1     Document Type: Article

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