The effects of building characteristics and site conditions on the damage distribution in Boumerdès after the 2003 Algeria earthquake

Earthquake Spectra

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 185-216

  Meslem, Abdelghani ^a   Yamazaki, Fumio ^a   Maruyama, Yoshihisa ^a   Benouar, Djillali ^b   Kibboua, Abderrahmane ^c   Mehani, Youcef ^c  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY HOUARI BOUMEDIENE   (Algeria)

^c Centre National de Recherche Appliquee en Genie Parasismique   (Algeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; REINFORCED CONCRETE; TOPOGRAPHY;

2003 ALGERIA EARTHQUAKE; AMPLIFICATION EFFECTS; BUILDING CHARACTERISTICS; CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; DAMAGE DISTRIBUTION; FIELD INVESTIGATION; MICRO-TREMOR MEASUREMENTS; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS;

EARTHQUAKES;

BUILDING CODE; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; MICROTREMOR; MULTISTOREY BUILDING; REINFORCED CONCRETE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

ALGERIA; BOUMERDES;

EID: 84857220452     PISSN: 87552930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1193/1.3675581     Document Type: Article

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