The seismic performance of braced timber pile bents

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 463-482

  Shama, Ayman A ^a   Mander, John B ^b  

^a Parsons   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cyclic lateral loading; Fragility curves; Seismic vulnerability; Timber pile bents

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMOLOGY;

TIMBER BRIDGE SUBSTRUCTURES;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

BRIDGE; CYCLIC LOADING; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; PILE; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SHAKING TABLE TEST; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE; TIMBER;

EID: 0037336096     PISSN: 00988847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eqe.236     Document Type: Article

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