Effect of overstrength on the seismic behaviour of multi-storey regularly asymmetric buildings

Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 23-42

  De Stefano, Mario ^a   Marino, Edoardo Michele ^b   Rossi, Pier Paolo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Asymmetric buildings; Design criteria; Inelastic seismic response; Multi storey buildings; Overstrength

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC BUILDINGS; DESIGN CRITERIA; INELASTIC SEISMIC RESPONSE; MULTI-STOREY BUILDINGS; OVERSTRENGTH;

COMPUTABILITY AND DECIDABILITY; COSTS; DUCTILITY; EARTHQUAKES; SEISMOLOGY; TORSIONAL STRESS; VIBRATION MEASUREMENT;

MODEL BUILDINGS;

ASYMMETRY; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; MULTISTOREY BUILDING; SEISMIC RESPONSE;

EID: 31444455346     PISSN: 1570761X     EISSN: 15731456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10518-005-5408-8     Document Type: Article

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