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Sensitivity Analysis of Dynamic Systems

Subjected to Seismic Loads

by

Christopher Roth and Mircea Grigoriu

Cornell University
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ithaca, New York 14853

Technical Report MCEER-01-0003

September 18, 2001

This research was conducted at Cornell University and was supported primarily
by the Earthquake Engineering Research Centers Program of the National Science Foundation
under award number EEC-9701471.
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