Abstract: Industrialization and urbanization are significant facets of modernization. The asynchronous development of the two is closely related to the agglomeration of producer services. This paper constructed an asynchrony index ...

Abstract: Previous papers have reported on the performance of a recently developed nonlinear ground response analysis code,

Abstract: A fully nonlinear finite-element (FE) model is developed to investigate the impact of hysteretic and viscous material behavior on the downhole motion recorded by an array at a large-scale seismic test site in Lotung, Taiwan, ...

Abstract: A 3D finite-element model is developed to study soil-structure interaction (SSI) effects at a Large-Scale Seismic Test (LSST) site in Lotung, Taiwan, during the earthquake of May 20, 1986. Analyses are carried out by direct ...