Liquefaction of soil in the Tokyo Bay area from the 2011 Tohoku (Japan) earthquake

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1618-1628

  Bhattacharya, S ^a   Hyodo, M ^b   Goda, K ^a   Tazoh, T ^c   Taylor, C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SHIMIZU CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIELD INVESTIGATION; GROUND IMPROVEMENT; GROUND MOTIONS; KEY CHARACTERISTICS; LARGE AMPLITUDE; LONG DURATION; PERFORMANCE OF BUILDINGS; TOKYO BAY;

EARTHQUAKES;

SOIL LIQUEFACTION;

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; GROUND MOTION; GROUND SETTLEMENT; LIQUEFACTION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TOHOKU; TOKYO BAY;

EID: 80051806002     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2011.06.006     Document Type: Article

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