Seismic evaluation of old masonry buildings. Part I: Method description and application to a case-study

Engineering Structures

Volumn 27, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 2024-2035

  Cardoso, Rafaela ^a   Lopes, Mário ^a   Bento, Rita ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Iterative method; Old masonry buildings; Seismic vulnerability; Wood structure

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TIMBER; WOOD PRODUCTS;

OLD MASONRY BUILDINGS; SEISMIC VULNERABILITY;

MASONRY CONSTRUCTION;

HISTORIC BUILDING; MASONRY; SEISMIC RETROFIT;

BUILDINGS; EARTH MOVEMENT; ITERATIVE METHODS; LUMBER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIMULATION; STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING; WOOD STRUCTURE;

EID: 26844486223     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2005.06.012     Document Type: Article

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