Seismic analysis of Fire Station No. One: a historic unreinforced masonry building

<p>Recent seismic events have confirmed the long-standing belief that unreinforced masonry structures are critically vulnerable to failure during earthquakes. A substantial number of older structures in the United States have unreinforced masonry construction. Among these are important histori...

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Main Author: Kontrim, Kathryn L.
Other Authors: Civil Engineering
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/44527
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09042008-063734/