Abstract: This study analyzes the response of continuous, straight, large diameter pipelines subjected to spatially and directionally correlated seismic ground motions. The stochastic characteristics of the ...

Abstract: This paper derives simplified differential displacement loading patterns, in lieu of spatially variable seismic excitations, for use in the seismic design of bridges, based on the displacement sets originally presented in ...

Abstract: The effect of randomness in the rapture process at the source on the near‐field seismic ground motions is examined. Time histories and response spectra are determined at an observation point in the vicinity of a vertical, ...

Abstract: A rigorous methodology for the simulation of homogeneous and partially isotropic multidimensional random fields is introduced. The property of partial isotropy of the random field is explicitly incorporated in the derivation ...