Critical Earthquake Response of Elastic-Plastic Structures and Rigid Blocks under Near-Fault Ground Motions: Closed-Form Approach via Double Impulse

• Main Author: Izuru Takewaki (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Theme Book
• Subjects: History of engineering & technology; fling-step input; Critical response; Long-duration ground motion; double impulse; forward-directivity input; triple impulse; robustness; Near-fault ground motion; Ground motion; Ductility factor; uncertainty; resonance; Structural parameter; Earthquake Response; Elastic-plastic response; Interval analysis; Multiple impulse; Earthquake input energy; redundancy; Upper bound of input energy; earthquake engineering; critical excitation method; Energy transfer function
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This eBook is the second in a series of books on the critical earthquake response of elastic-plastic structures or rigid blocks under near-fault ground motions, and includes four original research papers which were published in the specialty section Earthquake Engineering in 'Frontiers in Built...