Seismic stability and the force reduction factor of code-designed one-storey asymmetric structures

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 785-803

  De Stefano, Mario ^a   Rutenberg, Avigdor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Code design; Dynamic instability; Unidirectional and bidirectional excitation; Yielding asymmetric structures

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC RESPONSE; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE;

EID: 0032855329     PISSN: 00988847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9845(199907)28:7<785::AID-EQE842>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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