Performance of steel bridges during the 1995 Hyogo-ken Nanbu (Kobe, Japan) earthquake

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 678-713

  Bruneau, Michel ^a   Wilson, John C ^b   Tremblay, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bearing failures; Bridges; Brittle fractures; Buckling; Design codes; Earthquake; Seismic; Seismic restrainers; Steel; Steel columns

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE FRACTURE; BUCKLING; CODES (STANDARDS); COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; SEISMIC WAVES; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

BEARING FAILURES; GROUND SHAKING; HYOGO-KEN NANBU EARTHQUAKE; STEEL COLUMNS;

STEEL BRIDGES;

BRIDGE DESIGN; GROUND MOTION; KOBE EARTHQUAKE 1995; SEISMIC RESPONSE;

JAPAN, HONSHU, KOBE;

EID: 0030159362     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/l96-883     Document Type: Article

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