Implementation of the damage index approach for the rapid evaluation of earthquake resistant buildings

Earth Science Informatics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 751-758

  Pirasteh, Saied ^a   Li, Jonathan ^a   Attarzadeh, Iman ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Building evaluation; Civil engineering; Damage index (DI); Damage index model (DIM); FEMA; Geographical information systems (GIS); MATLAB

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BUILDING; CIVIL ENGINEERING; GIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC DATA; SOFTWARE; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84947486107     PISSN: 18650473     EISSN: 18650481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12145-014-0204-0     Document Type: Article

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