Retrofit of a hospital through strength reduction and enhanced damping

Smart Structures and Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 339-355

  Viti, Stefania ^a   Cimellaro, Gian Paolo ^b   Reinhorn, Andrei M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Damping; Fragility; Inelastic spectral analysis; Retrofit; Strengthening; Weakening

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; DEFORMATION; SEISMOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STRENGTHENING (METAL);

ACCELERATION RESPONSE; ESSENTIAL FACILITIES; FRAGILITY; MAXIMUM ACCELERATION; PARAMETRIC -ANALYSIS; RETROFIT; SUPPLEMENTAL DAMPING; WEAKENING;

RETROFITTING;

EID: 34548637662     PISSN: 17381584     EISSN: 17381991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12989/sss.2006.2.4.339     Document Type: Article

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