Did the large coseismic displacement cause the global overturning collapse of the Alto Rio building during the 27 February 2010 Offshore Maule, Chile earthquake?

Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 876-884

  Alimoradi, Arzhang ^a   Naeim, Farzad ^a  

^a John A Martin & Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CO-SEISMIC DISPLACEMENT; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL ENGINEER;

REINFORCED CONCRETE;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 78649810346     PISSN: 15417794     EISSN: 15417808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tal.678     Document Type: Article

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