Out-of-plane seismic performance of unreinforced clay brick masonry walls

8th US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering 2006

Volumn 14, Issue , 2006, Pages 8535-8544

  Meisl, C S ^a   Elwood, K J ^a   Mattman, D W ^a   Ventura, C E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY BRICKS; CONSTRUCTION QUALITY; GROUND MOTIONS; NATIONAL BUILDING CODE OF CANADA; OUT-OF-PLANE; PARAMETRIC STUDY; RIGID BODY; ROCKING RESPONSE; SEISMIC PERFORMANCE; SHAKE TABLE TESTS; SINGLE-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM; SOFT SOILS; UNREINFORCED MASONRY BUILDING; WALL CONSTRUCTION;

BUILDING CODES; CIVIL ENGINEERING; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; GEOLOGIC MODELS;

WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

EID: 84865837934     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (9)

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