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Open AccessComparative nonlinear soil-structure interaction analyses using macro-element and soil-block modelling approaches
In dynamic soil-structure interaction problems, involving the coupling of structure, foundation and soil, the use of a nonlinear macro-element modelling approach may result particularly advantageous not only t...
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Open AccessShake-table response simulation of a URM building specimen using discrete micro-models with varying degrees of detail
Recent technological advances have enabled earthquake engineering researchers to develop numerical models of increasing complexity, capable of duly reproducing even the smallest structural detail. In the case ...
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Open AccessIntegrated economic and environmental building classification and optimal seismic vulnerability/energy efficiency retrofitting
A life cycle framework for a new integrated classification system for buildings and the identification of renovation strategies that lead to an optimal balance between reduction of seismic vulnerability and in...
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The thickness and structural characteristics of the crust across Tibetan plateau from active-sources seismic profiles
The Tibetan plateau as one of the youngest orogen on the Earth was considered as the result of continent-continent collision between the Eurasian and Indian plates. The thickness and structure of the crust ben...
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Temporal and spatial variation characteristics of present stress field in the northern area of North China
From focal mechanism solutions of the earthquakes in the northern part of North China during the period of 2002∼2006, the directions of principal stress axes in 4 stress sub-districts are analyzed using a grid...
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Application of IPv6 and NGN to the information network of earthquake preparedness and disaster mitigation
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Construction and development of China digital seismological observation network
The seismological observation system in China has experienced rapid development over the Tenth Five-year Plan period. China Earthquake Administration (CEA) has completed the establishment of China digital seis...
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Open AccessStudy on mesosphere summer echoes observed by digital ionosonde at Zhongshan Station, Antarctica
The irregular characteristics of E and Es layers are studied with data from 1995 to 2002 observed by a Digisonde Portable Sounder-4 (DPS-4) ionosonde at Zhongshan Station, Antarctica. Because they have much si...