Spectral analysis of layered sites using shaking table tests.
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SUBMITTER: Fan G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6413934 | biostudies-literature | 2019
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Spectral analysis of layered sites using shaking table tests.
Fan Gang G Zhang Jianjing J Wu Jinbiao J Yan Kongming K
PloS one 20190312 3
The dynamic response analysis of horizontal and inclined layered sites using large-scale shaking table tests in various directions, including the dip direction, strike, vertical direction, slope direction and direction perpendicular to the interface of layered sites is conducted in this study. The Fourier spectrum and response spectrum characteristics in the horizontal site are first investigated in this study, and the dynamic responses of the inclined layered sites are then studied and compared ...[more]
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