Empirical improvements for Estimating earthquake response spectra with random-vibration theory

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 761-772

  Boore, David M ^a   Thompson, Eric M ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE; ENGINEERING INTERESTS; GROUND-MOTION; GROUND-MOTION EXCITATION; GROUND-MOTION SIMULATION; INTENSITY MEASURE; RESPONSE SPECTRA; ROOT MEAN SQUARES; SEISMOLOGICAL MODELS; STOCHASTIC METHODS; TIME-DOMAIN METHODS; TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATIONS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESPONSE ANALYSIS; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMOLOGY; STOCHASTICITY; VIBRATION;

EID: 84859131375     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120110244     Document Type: Article

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