Using traditional and innovative approaches in the seismic evaluation and strengthening of a historic unreinforced masonry synagogue

Engineering Structures

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2114-2126

  Paret, Terrence F ^a   Freeman, Sigmund A ^a   Searer, Gary R ^a   Hachem, Mahmoud ^a   Gilmartin, Una M ^a  

^a WISS JANNEY ELSTNER ASSOCIATES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Historic structure; Seismic strengthening; Unreinforced masonry building

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BRICK; BRICKMAKING; BUILDING MATERIALS; BUILDINGS; CANNING; DOMES; EARTHQUAKES; ELECTRON TRAPS; FIBER OPTICS; FOUNDATIONS; ISOMERS; MASONRY CONSTRUCTION; MASONRY MATERIALS; REINFORCEMENT; SEPARATION; SOLDERED JOINTS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS); WOODEN FLOORS;

BRICK MASONRY; DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS; DYNAMIC SEPARATION; HISTORIC STRUCTURE; IN-PLANE; INHERENT FLEXIBILITY; INNOVATIVE APPROACHES; LIFE SAFETY; MAIN ROOF; MASONRY WALLS; MODAL MASSES; NON-COMPLIANCE; NON-LINEAR; OUT-OF PLANE; PERIMETER WALLS; SAN FRANCISCO; SEISMIC EVALUATION; SEISMIC STRENGTHENING; STRUCTURAL SOLUTIONS; STRUCTURAL STEELS; SUPER-ELASTIC NITINOL; UNREINFORCED MASONRY; UNREINFORCED MASONRY BUILDING;

SEISMOLOGY;

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; HISTORIC BUILDING; INNOVATION; MASONRY; SEISMIC DESIGN; STRONG MOTION; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE;

EID: 48349135777     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2007.03.023     Document Type: Article

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