Dynamically equivalent rocking structures

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1543-1563

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Analytical dynamics; Linearization; Mechanism; Rocking

Indexed keywords

LINEARIZATION; MECHANISMS;

ANALYTICAL DYNAMICS; APPROXIMATION ERRORS; DYNAMIC EQUIVALENCE; EXISTING STRUCTURE; LOCAL LINEARIZATION; ROCKING; ROCKING RESPONSE; SEISMIC ISOLATION;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION;

GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC DESIGN; SEISMIC ISOLATION; SEISMIC RESPONSE; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE;

EID: 84903819760     PISSN: 00988847     EISSN: 10969845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eqe.2410     Document Type: Article

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