Developing empirical collapse fragility functions for global building types

Earthquake Spectra

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 775-795

  Jaiswal, Kishor ^a   Wald, David ^a   D'Ayala, Dina ^b  

^a US Geological Survey Golden CO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; EARTHQUAKES;

BAYESIAN PROCEDURES; BETA DISTRIBUTIONS; BUILDING COLLAPSE; COLLAPSE FRAGILITIES; DISCRETE LEVELS; INTENSITY LEVELS; MACROSEISMIC INTENSITY; U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 80052140247     PISSN: 87552930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1193/1.3606398     Document Type: Article

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