Seismic vulnerability assessment of historical masonry structural systems

Engineering Structures

Volumn 62-63, Issue , 2014, Pages 118-134

  Asteris, P G ^a   Chronopoulos, M P ^b   Chrysostomou, C Z ^c   Varum, H ^d   Plevris, V ^a   Kyriakides, N ^c   Silva, V ^d  

^a SCHOOL OF PEDAGOGICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Fragility curves; Historical structures; Masonry; Retrofitting; Structural assessment; Structural modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894099508     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2014.01.031     Document Type: Article

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