Recipe for disaster: Construction methods, materials, and building performance in the January 2010 haiti earthquake

Earthquake Spectra

Volumn 27, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Marshall, Justin D ^a   Lang, Anna F ^b   Baldridge, Steven M ^c   Popp, Daniel R ^c  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c Finance Factors Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE BLOCKS; EARTHQUAKES;

BUILDING PERFORMANCE; CONCRETE CYLINDERS; CONSTRUCTION METHOD; ENGINEERING DESIGN; ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS; HAITI EARTHQUAKES; RESIDENTIAL BUILDING; STRENGTH PROPERTY;

REINFORCED CONCRETE;

EID: 80055099706     PISSN: 87552930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1193/1.3637031     Document Type: Article

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