Socioeconomic implications of life quality index in design of optimum structures to withstand earthquakes

Journal of Structural Engineering

Volumn 130, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 969-977

  Sánchez Silva, Mauricio ^a,b   Rackwitz, Rüdiger ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acceptability; Earthquakes; Optimization; Seismic design; Social impact; Structural design

Indexed keywords

COSTS; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; OPTIMIZATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RETROFITTING; SEISMOLOGY;

ACCEPTABILITY; POISSONIAN PROCESSES; SEISMIC DESIGN; SOCIAL IMPACT;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 10944261861     PISSN: 07339445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9445(2004)130:6(969)     Document Type: Article

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