Traditional wooden buildings and their damages during earthquakes in Turkey

Engineering Failure Analysis

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 981-996

  Doǧangün, Adem ^a   Tuluk, Ö Iskender ^a   Livaoǧlu, Ramazan ^a   Acar, Ramazan ^a  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Earthquake damages; Turkish traditional wooden buildings

Indexed keywords

CRACK INITIATION; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); REINFORCED CONCRETE; WOODEN CONSTRUCTION;

EARTHQUAKE DAMAGES; TURKEY;

WOODEN BUILDINGS;

CRACK INITIATION; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); REINFORCED CONCRETE; WOODEN BUILDINGS; WOODEN CONSTRUCTION;

EID: 33645985771     PISSN: 13506307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfailanal.2005.04.011     Document Type: Article

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