Selected strengthening techniques for the seismic retrofit of unreinforced masonry buildings
Approximately two thirds of the fatalities caused by earthquakes in the last one hundred years have resulted due to the collapse of unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings. Poor performance of URM buildings was also observed in recent earthquakes such as the 2005 Pakistan earthquake, the 2008 Sichua...
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ResearchSpace@Auckland
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2292/19106 |