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- Title
- Strong Ground Motion. Proceedings of the National Science Foundation Seminar Workshop Held at Rancho Santa Fe, California on February, 1978.
- File
- PB80113004.pdf
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Engineering and Applied Science., January 1979, 108 p.
- Abstract
- Proceedings of a seminar-workshop dealing with mutual concerns of seismologists and engineers in strong ground motion are summarized. Discussions focused on three major areas: (1) characterization and parameterization of strong ground motion; (2) simulation and modeling of strong motions; and (3) source mechanism and estimation of strong motion for great earthquakes. Individual topics presented in these categories included quantitative prediction of strong motion for potential earthquake fault, recent developments and applications of deterministic earthquake models, application of system identification techniques for local site characterization, modeling of near-fault motions, a dynamic model for the San Fernando earthquake, alternative ground motion intensity measures, statistics of pulses on strong motion accelerograms, an introduction to strong motion instruments and data, application of synthetic seismograms to strong ground motion studies, semi-empirical approach to prediction of ground motions, occurrence of strong ground motions, simulations of earthquake ground motions, and needs of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the field of strong motion seismology.
- Keywords
- Earthquake resistant structures; Seismic waves; Earth movements; Seismology; Dynamic response; Ground motion; Earthquake engineering; Meetings; Soil structure interactions; Earthquakes; Dynamic structural analysis