Seismic fragility assessment of concrete gravity dams

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Volumn 32, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 2221-2240

  Tekie, Paulos B ^a   Ellingwood, Bruce R ^b  

^a WEIDLINGER ASSOCIATES INC   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Concrete dams; Earthquake engineering; Engineering mechanics; Fragility; Geotechnical engineering; Probability; Reliability; Statistics; Structural engineering

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE DAMS; CRACK INITIATION; EARTHQUAKES; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TENSILE TESTING;

SEISMIC FRAGILITY; TENSILE CRACKING;

GRAVITY DAMS;

EARTHQUAKE; GRAVITY DAM; SEISMIC RESPONSE;

CONCRETE STRUCTURE; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; GRAVITY DAM; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC RESPONSE;

EID: 0345254946     PISSN: 00988847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eqe.325     Document Type: Article

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