Selecting, scaling and matching accelerograms are critically important to engineering
design and assessment, enabling structural response to be determined with greater …

Empirical equations are presented for the prediction of displacement response ordinates for
damping ratios of 2, 5, 10, 20 and 30% of critical and for response periods up to 4s, using …

In current versions of guidelines or buildings codes for seismic design, site effects are
accounted for through four soil factors which modify the shape of normalized acceleration …

Recordings from strong-motion accelerographs are of fundamental importance in
earthquake engineering, forming the basis for all characterizations of ground shaking …

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) funded a project to improve
guidance to the earthquake engineering profession for selecting and scaling earthquake …

The characterization of strength of earthquake demands for seismic analysis or design
requires the specification of a level of intensity. Numerous ground motion intensity indices …

Dynamic nonlinear analysis of structures requires the seismic input to be defined in the form
of acceleration time-series, and these will generally be required to be compatible with the …

In this paper, the method of Wong and Trifunac 1 for generating artificial strong motion
accelerograms has been extended to generate synthetic torsional accelerograms and their …

Displacement-based seismic design and assessment of structures require the reliable
definition of displacement spectra for a wide range of periods and damping levels. The …

SMART 1 is the first large digital array of strong-motion seismographs specially designed for
engineering and seismological studies of the generation and near-field properties of …