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Earthquake engineering

model of a rigid block rocking on its base that shows larger blocks are more stable than small ones of the same slenderness.

In earthquake engineering, rocking block model refers to model of a rigid block rocking on its base that shows larger blocks are more stable than small ones of the same slenderness. This meaning comes from Housner (1963) in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.[1]

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References

Housner, G. W. (1963). The behavior of inverted pendulum structures during earthquakes. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 53(2), 403-417. https://doi.org/10.1785/bssa0530020403

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