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Random Excitation of Structures by Earthquakes and Atmospheric Turbulence pp 77–109Cite as

An Approach to Characterizing, Modeling and Analyzing Earthquake Excitation Records

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Abstract

In these lectures we shall briefly describe an approach to the study of strong motion earthquake accelerograms that treats them basically as non-stationary time series. We are motivated by three distinct problems:

  1. (1)

    The statistical problem of modeling general non-stationary time series.

  2. (2)

    Characterization of earthquake acceleration records as non-stationary stochastic processes.

  3. (3)

    Predict the dynamic characteristics of local ground surface behavior from strong motion records by means of the stochastic model obtained in (2).

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  1. Polytechnic Institute of New York, USA

    Frank Kozin

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  1. Technical University of Vienna, Austria

    H. Parkus

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Kozin, F. (1977). An Approach to Characterizing, Modeling and Analyzing Earthquake Excitation Records. In: Parkus, H. (eds) Random Excitation of Structures by Earthquakes and Atmospheric Turbulence. International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, vol 225. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-2744-5_2

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