Dynamic and seismic performance of old multi-tiered temples in Nepal

Engineering Structures

Volumn 25, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 1827-1839

  Jaishi, Bijaya ^a   Ren, Wei Xin ^a   Zong, Zhou Hong ^a   Maskey, Prem Nath ^b  

^a FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Ambient vibration; Failure mode; Modal analysis; Response spectrum; Seismic evaluation; Structural dynamics; Temple

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COMPRESSION TESTING; EARTHQUAKES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

DAMPING RATIO;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; FAILURE MECHANISM; HISTORIC BUILDING; MONUMENT; SEISMIC RESPONSE;

NEPAL;

EID: 0242574543     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2003.08.006     Document Type: Article

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