ABSTRACT A summary of methodologies to estimate local site effects of geology and
topography on strong ground motion during earthquakes is presented. Some canonical …

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J. SJ~NCHEZ-SESMA Instituto de Ingenieria, Universidad Nacional Autbnoma de Mbxico, Cd …

The Greek coastal town of Egion on 15 June 1995 was shaken by a strong, small epicentral
distance, earthquake that caused heavy damages to buildings and loss of life. The damages …

An indirect boundary‐method formulation to obtain the three‐dimensional response of an
infinitely long canyon of uniform but arbitrary cross‐section cut in a layered viscoelastic half …

Trefftz's method is applied to solve the diffraction of P, SV, and Rayleigh waves by surface
irregularities in an elastic, isotropic and homogeneous half-space. The diffracted wave fields …

Amplification of ground motion in three dimensions due to arbitrarily shaped cylindrical
alluvial valleys is investigated in this paper. A hyrid numerical method combining boundary …

Results of an extensive numerical study on two-dimensional wave scattering by valleys of
semi-elliptical cross-section due to incident SH, SV and P waves are presented. The …

A boundary method is applied to study the seismic response of axisymmetric three-
dimensional alluvial valleys on the surface of an elastic half-space. The excitation is given …

We address the problem of the response to a seismic wave of an urban site consisting of N b
blocks overlying a soft layer underlain by a hard substratum. The results of a theoretical …

A boundary method is applied to study the response of a two-dimensional horizontally
stratified deposit of arbitrary shape under the incidence of SH waves. The procedure …