Damage to Civil Engineering Structures with an Emphasis on Rock Slope Failures and Tunnel Damage Induced by the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake

Journal of Disaster Research

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 153-164

  Aydan, Omer ^a   Hamada, Masanori ^b   Itoh, Jun ^b   Okubo, Katsumi ^c  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Naka Nihon Expressway Company ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

bridge; damage; landslide; slope; tunnel; Wenchuan earthquake

Indexed keywords

BRIDGES; EARTHQUAKES; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); TUNNELS;

2008 WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKES; CIVIL ENGINEERING STRUCTURES; CUT SLOPE; DAMAGE; ROCK SLOPE FAILURE; SICHUAN; SICHUAN PROVINCE; SLOPE; SLOPE FAILURE; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE;

LANDSLIDES;

EID: 77953311149     PISSN: 18812473     EISSN: 18838030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.20965/jdr.2009.p0153     Document Type: Article

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