Geotechnical Aspects of the L'Aquila Earthquake

Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-66

  Monaco, Paola ^a   Totani, Gianfranco ^a   Barla, Giovanni ^b   Cavallaro, Antonio ^c   Costanzo, Antonio ^d   D'Onofrio, Anna ^e   Evangelista, Lorenza ^e   Foti, Sebastiano ^b   Grasso, Salvatore ^e   Lanzo, Giuseppe ^e   Madiai, Claudia ^e   Maraschini, Margherita ^b   Marchetti, Silvano ^a   Maugeri, Michele ^e   Pagliaroli, Alessandro ^e   Pallara, Oronzo ^b   Penna, Augusto ^e   Saccenti, Andrea ^e   De Magistris, Filippo Santucci ^e   Scasserra, Giuseppe ^e   Silvestri, Francesco ^e   Simonelli, Armando Lucio ^e   Simoni, Giacomo ^e   Tommasi, Paolo ^e   Vannucchi, Giovanni ^e   Verrucci, Luca ^e   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^e NONE

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EID: 84883125635     PISSN: 15736059     EISSN: 18724671     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2060-2_1     Document Type: Article

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