Experimental study on retrofit of school buildings by adding sandwich columns to partition brick walls.

Thousands of buildings were damaged by the devastating Chi-Chi earthquake on September 21, 1999. Of all the public buildings, school buildings are the most vulnerable to earthquake damage, and the retrofitting of existing school buildings becomes a stringent issue. In addition to cost effectiveness,...

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Published in:Earthquake engineering & structural dynamics. 40, 13 (2011).
Main Author: Chung, L. L.
Format: Article
Language:English
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