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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 821051, 6 pages
Free Field Surface Motion at Different Site Types due to Near-Fault Ground Motions
Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai 400076, PIN, India
Received 15 May 2012; Accepted 21 June 2012
Academic Editors: A. Streltsov and P. Tosi
Copyright © 2012 Jagabandhu Dixit et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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