The effective duration of earthquake strong motion

JJ Bommer, A Martínez-Pereira - Journal of earthquake engineering, 1999 - World Scientific
The duration of strong ground shaking during earthquakes can play an important rôle in the
response of foundation materials and structures, particularly when strength or stiffness …

The effects of ground motion duration and pinching-degrading behavior on seismic response of SDOF systems

M Molazadeh, H Saffari - Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
This study tries to highlight the importance of considering the influence of pinching-
degrading in cyclic behavior to show the destructive effects of the duration on ductility (µ m) …

The influence of strong-motion duration on the seismic response of masonry structures

JJ Bommer, G Magenes, J Hancock… - Bulletin of Earthquake …, 2004 - Springer
The influence of strong-motion duration on the response of saturated soils is clearly
recognised and accounted for in the assessment of liquefaction potential. The degree to …

How to model amplification of strong earthquake motions by local soil and geologic site conditions

MD Trifunac - Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
A simple equation is proposed to describe the physical nature of the frequency dependent
amplification of strong earthquake shaking by local soil and geologic site conditions. For …

Duration of strong ground motion in terms of earthquake magnitude, epicentral distance, site conditions and site geometry

EI Novikova, MD Trifunac - Earthquake engineering & …, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
The physical bases and empirical equations for modelling the duration of strong earthquake
ground motion in terms of the earthquake magnitude, the epicentral distance and the …

Strong‐motion seismology

DM Boore - Reviews of Geophysics, 1983 - Wiley Online Library
Although this is the first review on this topic to appear in a quadrennial report, the roots of
strong‐motion seismology extend back to at least 1932, when far‐sighted engineers in the …

Duration of strong ground motion during Mexican earthquakes in terms of magnitude, distance to the rupture area and dominant site period

E Reinoso, M Ordaz - Earthquake Engineering & Structural …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
A study of the duration of strong ground motion using accelerometric data of subduction and
normal‐faulting Mexican earthquakes is presented. Duration is obtained based on the time …

Strong-motion duration predictive models from subduction interface earthquakes recorded in the hill zone of the Valley of Mexico

AS López-Castañeda, E Reinoso - Soil Dynamics and Earthquake …, 2021 - Elsevier
Many studies have found that ground-motion duration has a considerable influence on
damage to conventional civil structures. Historically, Mexico City has been severely affected …

Estimation of frequency‐dependent strong motion duration via wavelets and its influence on nonlinear seismic response

LA Montejo, MJ Kowalsky - Computer‐Aided Civil and …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
A procedure for estimation of frequency‐dependent strong motion duration (FDSMD) is
developed. The proposed procedure utilizes the continuous wavelet transform and is based …

Neural network estimation of duration of strong ground motion using Japanese earthquake records

CR Arjun, A Kumar - Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2011 - Elsevier
The duration of strong motion has a significant influence on the severity of ground shaking.
In this work, a combination of average values of four geophysical properties of site (Standard …