Collaborative effort to estimate collapse fragility for buildings worldwide: The WHE-PAGER project

9th US National and 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering 2010, Including Papers from the 4th International Tsunami Symposium

Volumn 5, Issue , 2010, Pages 3709-3719

  D'Ayala, D F ^a   Jaiswal, K S ^b   Wald, D J ^b   Porter, K ^c   Greene, M ^d  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d World Housing Encyclopedia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING INVENTORY; BUILDING STOCKS; EMPIRICAL ESTIMATE; FRAGILITY CURVES; LOSS MODEL; SEMI-EMPIRICAL;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; TSUNAMIS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84867170288     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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