Overturning of retrofitted rocking structures under pulse-type excitations

Journal of Engineering Mechanics

Volumn 138, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 963-972

  Dimitrakopoulos, Elias G ^a   DeJong, Matthew J ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analytical dynamics; Damping; Earthquake engineering; Overturning; Rocking

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL DYNAMICS; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; EXISTING STRUCTURE; GROUND ACCELERATIONS; LINEARIZED EQUATIONS; OVERTURNING; ROCKING; SEMI-ANALYTICAL SOLUTION;

ANALYTICAL MODELS; CIVIL ENGINEERING; EQUATIONS OF MOTION;

DAMPING;

DAMPING; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; GROUND MOTION; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; PARAMETERIZATION; SEISMIC ISOLATION; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC RETROFIT; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE;

EID: 84879367911     PISSN: 07339399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EM.1943-7889.0000410     Document Type: Article

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