Optimal probabilistic design of seismic dampers for the protection of isolated bridges against near-fault seismic excitations

Engineering Structures

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3496-3508

  Taflanidis, Alexandros A ^a  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

Bridge isolation; Model uncertainty; Near fault excitation; Seismic dampers; Stochastic simulation; Structural robustness

Indexed keywords

MODEL UNCERTAINTY; NEAR-FAULT; SEISMIC DAMPERS; STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS; STRUCTURAL ROBUSTNESS;

ABUTMENTS (BRIDGE); BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMPING; DESIGN; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEISMOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; STREAM FLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SEISMIC DESIGN;

BRIDGE; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; FOUNDATION; GROUND MOTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC DESIGN; SEISMIC HAZARD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE;

EID: 80054882113     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2011.07.012     Document Type: Article

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