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    • Development of a Fragility Model for the Residential Building Stock in South America 

      Villar-Vega, Mabé; Silva, Vitor; Crowley, Helen; Yepes, Catalina; Tarque, Nicola; Acevedo, Ana Beatriz; Hube, Matías A. A.; Gustavo, Coronel D.; Santa María, Hernán (US, 2017)
      South America—in particular, the Andean countries—are exposed to high levels of seismic hazard, which, when combined with the elevated concentration of population and properties, has led to an alarming potential for human ...
    • Displacement-Based Fragility Curves for Seismic Assessment of Adobe Buildings in Cusco, Peru 

      Tarque, Nicola; Crowley, Helen; Pinho, Rui; Varumd, Humberto (US, 2012)
      The seismic vulnerability of single-story adobe dwellings located in Cusco, Peru, is studied based on a mechanics-based procedure, which considers the analysis of in-plane and out-of-plane failure mechanisms of walls. The ...