Exact evaluation of the location of the optimum torsion axis

Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 277-290

  Marino, E M ^a   Rossi, P P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING CODES; ELASTICITY; RIGIDITY; SEISMOLOGY; STANDARDS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TORSIONAL STRESS;

LATERAL-TORSIONAL COUPLING; MULTISTOREY BUILDINGS; OPTIMUM TORSIONAL AXIS;

TALL BUILDINGS;

EID: 10444257206     PISSN: 15417794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tal.252     Document Type: Article

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