First-level pre-earthquake assessment of buildings using fuzzy logic

Earthquake Spectra

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 865-885

  Demartinos, Konstantinos ^a   Dritsos, Stephanos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; EARTHQUAKES; FUZZY SETS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

ATHENS EARTHQUAKE; PRE-EARTHQUAKE ASSESSMENT METHODS; VISUAL SCREENING;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BUILDING; DATABASE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECISION; SEISMIC DESIGN; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33845757662     PISSN: 87552930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1193/1.2358176     Document Type: Article

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