Procedures from international guidelines for assessing seismic risk to flood-control levees

Earthquake Spectra

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 1191-1218

  Zimmaro, Paolo ^a   Kwak, Dong Youp ^b   Stewart, Jonathan P ^a   Brandenberg, Scott J ^a   Balakrishnan, Ariya ^b   Jongejan, Ruben ^c   Ausilio, Ernesto ^d   Dente, Giovanni ^d   Xie, Junju ^e   Mikami, Atsushi ^f  

^a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^b RMS Inc ^*  (United States)

^c Jongejan RMC   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^f TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMBANKMENTS; FLOOD CONTROL; LEVEES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC DESIGN; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; SOIL LIQUEFACTION; WATER LEVELS;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; GROUND MOTIONS; HYDROLOGICAL CONDITION; PEAK ACCELERATION; REFERENCE SITES; RETURN PERIODS; SEISMIC PERFORMANCE; SOIL CONDITIONS;

FLOODS;

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; FLOOD CONTROL; GUIDELINE; LEVEE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC DESIGN; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC RESPONSE;

EID: 85032296753     PISSN: 87552930     EISSN: 19448201     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1193/072316EQS117EP     Document Type: Article

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