Performance evaluation of a three-storey unreinforced masonry building during the 1992 Erzincan earthquake

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 319-336

  Sucuoǧlu, Haluk ^a   Erberik, Altuǧ ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Damage model; Erzincan earthquake; Non linear analysis; Unreinforced masonry; Wall ratio

Indexed keywords

BRICK; CODES (STANDARDS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EARTHQUAKES; ENERGY DISSIPATION; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MORTAR; PERFORMANCE; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

DAMAGE MODEL; ERZINCAN EARTHQUAKE; LATERAL STRENGTH; NONLINEAR DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; SEISMIC CODE; THREE STOREY UNREINFORCED MASONRY BUILDING; WALL RATIO;

CONCRETE BUILDINGS;

EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; ERZINCAN EARTHQUAKE 1992; MASONRY; SEISMIC DESIGN; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE;

TURKEY, ERZINCAN;

EID: 0031105675     PISSN: 00988847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9845(199703)26:3<319::AID-EQE645>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Review

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