Performance of tall buildings in Concepción during the 27 February 2010 moment magnitude 8.8 offshore Maule, Chile earthquake

Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 37-64

  Rojas, Fabian ^a,f   Naeim, Farzad ^b   Lew, Marshall ^c   Carpenter, Lauren D ^d   Youssef, Nabih F ^e   Saragoni, G Rodolfo ^f   Adaros, MacArena Schachter ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

^c MACTEC Engineering and Consulting Inc   (United States)

^d WHL International Inc   (United States)

^e Nabih Youssef and Associates   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^g WEIDLINGER ASSOCIATES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENTS; CONCRETE SPALLING; FAULT RUPTURES; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; REINFORCING STEELS;

CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; EARTHQUAKES; REINFORCED CONCRETE; TALL BUILDINGS;

CONCRETE BUILDINGS;

EID: 78649851810     PISSN: 15417794     EISSN: 15417808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tal.674     Document Type: Article

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