Low velocity vehicle impact against building structures: An outline of relevant codes

The actual trend of building codes is to include horizontal vehicle impacts as part of the accidental actions to consider in the design of a building structure. Most of these codes use an equivalent static load to represent the effects of the impact. In this paper we will review how this issue is co...

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Main Authors: Ferrer,B, Ivorra,S, Irles,R
Language:English
Published: Escuela de Construcción Civil, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 2010
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-915X2010000200003
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