Economic analysis of earthquake retrofit options: An application to welded steel moment frames

Structural Design of Tall Buildings

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-19

  Thiel Jr , Charles C ^a,c   Hagen, Stephen H ^b  

^a Telesis Consultants   (United States)

^b John A Martin & Associates Inc   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; INSURANCE; PROBABILITY; REPAIR; RETROFITTING; SHEAR WALLS; STRUCTURAL FRAMES; WELDED STEEL STRUCTURES;

BENEFIT COST RATIO; PROBABLE MAXIMUM LOSS (PML);

TALL BUILDINGS;

EID: 0032024849     PISSN: 10628002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1794(199803)7:1<1::AID-TAL99>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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