Effects of interface material on the performance of free rocking blocks

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 375-392

  Elgawady, Mohamed A ^a   Ma, Quincy ^b   Butterworth, John W ^b   Ingham, Jason ^b  

^a Washington State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Interface material; Nonlinear dynamic; Radiation damping; Rocking; Rubber

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; DAMPING; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENERGY DISSIPATORS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RADIATION; TIMBER;

AMPLITUDE RESPONSE; COEFFICIENT OF RESTITUTION; CONTACT INTERFACE; DISCRETE FUNCTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; INTERFACE MATERIALS; NONLINEAR DYNAMIC; PIECE-WISE; RADIATION DAMPING; RIGID BLOCK; ROCKING; ROCKING BLOCK; ROTATIONAL AMPLITUDES; TEST RESULTS; TEST SPECIMENS;

RUBBER;

CONCRETE; DAMPING; ENERGY DISSIPATION; INTERFACE; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL METHOD; RIGIDITY; ROCK BLOCK; RUBBER; STEEL; TESTING METHOD; TIMBER;

EID: 79952241205     PISSN: 00988847     EISSN: 10969845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eqe.1025     Document Type: Article

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