An improved energy-based approach for selecting pulse-like ground motions

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Volumn 45, Issue 14, 2016, Pages 2405-2411

  Chang, Zhiwang ^a   Sun, Xiaodan ^a   Zhai, Changhai ^b   Zhao, John X ^a,c   Xie, Lili ^b,d  

^a SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

near fault; pulse like ground motion; selection; velocity time history

Indexed keywords

SEISMOLOGY; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ENERGY BASED APPROACH; GROUND-MOTION PREDICTION EQUATIONS; NEAR FAULT; PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS; PULSE-LIKE GROUND MOTIONS; QUANTITATIVE CLASSIFICATIONS; SELECTION; VELOCITY-TIME HISTORY;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION;

AMPLITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FAULT ZONE; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC VELOCITY; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 84969963337     PISSN: 00988847     EISSN: 10969845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eqe.2758     Document Type: Article

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