Application of the Specific Barrier Model to the simulation of earthquake strong ground motions

8th US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering 2006

Volumn 13, Issue , 2006, Pages 8019-8028

  Halldorsson, Benedikt ^a   Papageorgiou, Apostolos S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASEISMIC DESIGN; EARTHQUAKE EVENTS; EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTIONS; EARTHQUAKE STRONG GROUND MOTION; EFFECTIVE TOOL; FAR-FIELD; FAULT PLANES; FAULTING PROCESS; NEAR-FAULT; REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE; SEISMIC MOMENT; SELF-CONSISTENT DESCRIPTION; SOURCE MECHANISMS; SPECIFIC BARRIER MODEL; STOCHASTIC APPROACH; STRONG GROUND MOTION; STRONG MOTION; SUB-EVENTS; TIME AND FREQUENCY DOMAINS; TIME HISTORY; VELOCITY PULSE; WIDE FREQUENCY RANGE;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; FAULTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 84865835758     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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