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Computational Strategies for Frames with Infill Walls: Discrete and Smeared Crack

Analyses and Seismic Fragility

by

K.M. Mosalam, R.N. White and P. Gergely

Technical Report NCEER-97-0021

December 31, 1997

This research was conducted at Cornell University and was supported in whole or in part by the National Science Foundation under grant number BCS 90-25010 and other

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