Detailed seismic assessment and improvement procedure for vintage flexible timber diaphragms

Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 97-118

  Giongo, Ivan ^a   Wilson, Aaron ^b   Dizhur, Dmytro Y ^c   Derakhshan, Hossein ^d   Tomasi, Roberto ^a   Griffith, Michael C ^d   Quenneville, Pierre ^c   Ingham, Jason M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b Holmes Consulting Group   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MASONRY MATERIALS; SEISMOLOGY; STATISTICAL TESTS; STIFFNESS; TIMBER;

ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE; SEISMIC ASSESSMENT; SHEAR STIFFNESS; STANDARD SOLUTIONS; STRENGTH VALUES; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; UNREINFORCED MASONRY BUILDING; WORKED EXAMPLES;

DIAPHRAGMS;

EID: 84904726439     PISSN: 11749857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5459/bnzsee.47.2.97-118     Document Type: Article

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