Building Control with Passive Dampers: Optimal Performance-based Design for Earthquakes

Building Control with Passive Dampers: Optimal Performance-based Design for Earthquakes

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-306

  Takewaki, Izuru ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 76949107404     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470824931     Document Type: Book

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