Assessing the seismic torsional vulnerability of elevated tanks with RC frame-type staging

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 183-197

  Dutta, S C ^a   Jain, S K ^b   Murty, C V R ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Dynamic; Earthquake response; Elevated water tanks; Seismic response; Tank stagings; Torsion

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE REINFORCEMENTS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FAILURE ANALYSIS; REINFORCED CONCRETE; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TORSIONAL STRESS; WATER TANKS;

EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE;

EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE;

SEISMIC RESPONSE; STORAGE TANK;

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; SEISMIC RESPONSE; STORAGE TANK;

EID: 0034103298     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0267-7261(00)00003-8     Document Type: Article

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