Seismic Design Aspects of Vertically Irregular Reinforced Concrete Buildings

Earthquake Spectra

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 455-477

  Das, Satrajit ^a   Nau, James M ^b  

^a URS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE BUILDINGS; EARTHQUAKES; REINFORCED CONCRETE; STIFFNESS;

EQUIVALENT LATERAL FORCE (ELF);

SEISMOLOGY;

BUILDING; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; MASONRY; REINFORCED CONCRETE; SEISMIC DESIGN; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE;

EID: 0142250905     PISSN: 87552930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1193/1.1595650     Document Type: Article

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