On the Seismic Vulnerability of Existing Buildings: A Case Study of the City of Basel

Earthquake Spectra

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 43-66

  Lang, Kerstin ^a   Bachmann, Hugo ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; EVALUATION; EXTRAPOLATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TORSION TESTING;

NONLINEAR DEFORMATION; PROBABILISTIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC VULNERABILITY;

BUILDINGS;

BUILDING; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; SEISMIC RESPONSE; URBAN AREA; VULNERABILITY;

BASEL; BASEL-STADT; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 1842738317     PISSN: 87552930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1193/1.1648335     Document Type: Article

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