Free-field rotations during earthquakes: Relevance on buildings

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 875-891

  Castellani, Alberto ^a   Stupazzini, Marco ^a   Guidotti, Roberto ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Closely spaced arrays; Rocking; Rotational spectra; Seismic effects on tall buildings; Soil rotation

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; EARTHQUAKES; POWER SPECTRUM; PROFITABILITY; TALL BUILDINGS;

AREAS OF CONCERNS; AVERAGE VALUES; BUILDING STRUCTURE; CLOSELY SPACED ARRAYS; CROSS POWER SPECTRUM; CROSS SPECTRA; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; EARTHQUAKE EVENTS; EARTHQUAKE RECORDS; ENGINEERING STRUCTURES; EPICENTRE; HORIZONTAL ACCELERATION; HORIZONTAL MOTION; INPUT MOTIONS; INTERPOLATION PROCESS; MATHEMATICAL RELATION; NEW ZEALAND; POWER-SPECTRA; PROPAGATION THEORY; RESPONSE SPECTRA; ROCKING; ROTATION COMPONENTS; ROTATIONAL MOTION; ROTATIONAL SPECTRA; SEISMIC EFFECT; STRONG MOTION; STRUCTURAL EFFECT; TALL STRUCTURES; VERTICAL MOTIONS;

ROTATION;

BUILDING; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; GROUND MOTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC DESIGN; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

TAIWAN;

AQUILA;

EID: 84858866532     PISSN: 00988847     EISSN: 10969845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eqe.1163     Document Type: Article

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