Seismic vulnerability assessment of ancient masonry building: an experimental method

This paper presents a review of the methods for seismic vulnerability assessment, together with an experimental method based on shaking table testing. This method is applied to a Portuguese masonry building typology with stone walls and timber floors, subjected to increasing earthquake damage. Tradi...

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Main Author: Mendes, N. (author)
Other Authors: Lourenço, Paulo B. (author), Costa, Alfredo Campos (author)
Format: conferencePaper
Language:eng
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/17619
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/17619