Critical Excitation Methods in Earthquake Engineering

Soil-structure interaction Resonance Fourier series Resilience Frequency domain analysis System failure Energy-Flow Robustness Probabilistic analysis Worst case analysis Interval analysis Stochastic response Critical Excitation Method Redundancy Power Spectral Density Body-wave acceleration power Acceleration Response coherence function Critical excitation critical power spectral density deterministic time series critical excitation problem earthquake energy input damage of structure earthquake input energy complex modal analysis envelope function critical combination deterministic analysis Elastic-plastic structure fail-safe system global stiffness parameter credible bound Earthquake energy input rate inertial interaction energy input mechanism input energy density energy transfer function mean total energy maximum response Fourier Amplitude Spectrum Nonproportional Damping Multi-component input nonstationary transfer function Hysteretic Response passively-controlled structure probabilistic ground motions random vibration theory Probabilistic critical excitation statistical equivalent linearization Robust stiffness design Stationary random input structure-foundation-soil system structure-dependent critical excitation Structure-pile system subcritical excitation meanâ??square drift worst cross-spectrum uncertain ground motion uniformly modulated ground motion kinematic interaction nonstationary input Parallel System worst-case earthquake input min-max procedure model-free design multi-degree-of-freedom system nonstationary random input temporal energy concentration velocity power Winkler-type spring Surface wave