Research

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Selected Recent Research Results:

• Building Periods for Use in Earthquake Resistant Design Codes – Earthquake Response Data Compilation and Analysis of Time and Amplitude Variations
• Wavelets Applications to Seismic Response Studies
• Strong Motion Data Release: M_L=7.0 Hector Mine Earthquake of October 16, 1999
• Repeatability of Site Effects: Northridge Aftershock Data Recorded at Strong Motion Stations
• Selected common problems in automatic digitization of accelerograms
• Summary of 1994 Northridge Earthquake Research
• Quick Reference Liquefaction Opportunity Maps for a Metropolitan Area
• Simulation of Strong Earthquake Motion by Explosions

Experiments at the Lyaur Testing Site in Tajikistan:  Video, Publication

• Probabilistic Estimation of Structural Response to Strong Earthquakes
• Operation of the Los Angeles and Vicinity Strong Motion Network
• Data processing (see The Strong Motion Data Processing Laboratory)
• Strong ground motion scaling models

Publications

• Selected Publications
• Civil Engineering Department Report Series (Strong Motion Group contributions, 1976-present)
• List of publications of V.W. Lee,  M.I. Todorovska, M.D. Trifunac, H.L. Wong

International Cooperation

• Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Central Laboratory for Seismic Mechanics and Earthquake Engineering
• Central Water and Power Research Station, Pune, India
• Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
• Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology, Skopje, Macedonia
• Seismological Observatory, Skopje, Macedonia
• Seismological Observatory, Zagreb, Croatia
• Tajik Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology
• UNAM, Mexico, Institute of Engineering
• Univ. of Monte Negro, Podgorica, Yugoslavia

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