Seismic Behavior of the San Pietro di Coppito Church Bell Tower in L'Aquila, Italy

Open Civil Engineering Journal

Volumn 6, Issue SPEC.ISS.1, 2012, Pages 131-147

  Milani, Gabriele ^a   Russo, Salvatore ^b   Pizzolato, Marco ^c   Tralli, Antonio ^c  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY IUAV OF VENICE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

3D finite elements; Limit analysis; Masonry tower; Pushover

Indexed keywords

3-D FINITE ELEMENTS; DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS; L'AQUILA EARTHQUAKES; LIMIT ANALYSIS; MASONRY TOWERS; MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PUSHOVER; STRUCTURAL MONITORING;

MASONRY MATERIALS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TOWERS;

FAILURE (MECHANICAL);

EID: 84877703672     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18741495     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1874149501206010131     Document Type: Article

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