Significance of severe distant and moderate close earthquakes on design and behavior of tall buildings

Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 391-416

  Mwafy, Aman ^a   Elnashai, A M R ^a,d   Sigbjörnsson, Ragnar ^b   Salama, Assaad ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c HELWAN UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; REINFORCED CONCRETE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTIC; ECONOMICAL DESIGN; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HAZARD SPECTRA;

TALL BUILDINGS;

EID: 33846355640     PISSN: 15417794     EISSN: 15417808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tal.300     Document Type: Article

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