Experimental investigation of spatially varying effect of ground motions on bridge pounding

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Volumn 41, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 1959-1976

  Li, Bo ^a   Bi, Kaiming ^b   Chouw, Nawawi ^a   Butterworth, John W ^a   Hao, Hong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bridge seismic response; Ground motion spatial variation; Pounding; Relative displacement; Shake table experiment

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING;

BRIDGE GIRDER; BRIDGE STRUCTURES; COHERENCY LOSS; CONTROLLED NOT; DESIGN SPECTRUM; DYNAMIC PROPERTY; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; GROUND EXCITATION; GROUND MOTIONS; NEW ZEALAND; POUNDING; RELATIVE DISPLACEMENT; RELATIVE MOVEMENT; SEPARATION DISTANCES; SHAKE TABLE; SHAKE TABLE EXPERIMENTS; SHALLOW SOILS; SOFT SOILS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SPATIALLY VARYING GROUND EXCITATION; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE;

SEISMIC RESPONSE;

BRIDGE; DISPLACEMENT; DYNAMIC PROPERTY; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SHAKING TABLE TEST; SPATIAL VARIATION; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE;

EID: 84867472002     PISSN: 00988847     EISSN: 10969845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eqe.2168     Document Type: Article

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