Haiti building failures and a replicable building design for improved earthquake safety

Earthquake Spectra

Volumn 27, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Holliday, Lisa ^a   Grant, Hank ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b University of Oklahoma   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION; EARTHQUAKES; FAILURE (MECHANICAL);

BUILDING DESIGN; BUILDING FAILURE; BUILDING TECHNIQUES; CONSTRUCTION METHOD; CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE; EARTHQUAKE SAFETY; STRUCTURAL DETAILS;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 80055078782     PISSN: 87552930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1193/1.3636386     Document Type: Article

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