Vertical earthquake ground motion records: An overview

Journal of Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 663-697

  Elgamal, Ahmed ^a   He, Liangcai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Downhole array; Vertical acceleration; Vertical ground motion; Vertical response spectrum

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMOLOGY; SOIL MECHANICS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

DOWNHOLE ARRAYS; VERTICAL ACCELERATION; VERTICAL GROUND MOTION; VERTICAL RESPONSE SPECTRUM;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

EID: 8644257729     PISSN: 13632469     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S1363246904001572     Document Type: Article

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