The Retrofitting of Existing Buildings For Seismic Criteria

The Retrofitting of Existing Buildings For Seismic Criteria by Christa Besing B.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Submitted to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degrees of Master of Engineering in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology June 2004 © 2004 Christa Besing All rights reserved The author hereby grants to MIT permission to reproduce and to distribute paper and electronic copies of this thesis document in whole or in part. Signature of Author............. Department of Civil Certified by.......................... PofessorAf Civil .............. .... and Env< Sental Engineering May 7, 2004 / . Jerome J Connor anch Environmental Engineering Thesis Supervisor Accepted by.... .................. Heidi Nepf Chairman, Committee for Graduate Studies MASSACHUSETTS INSTITU'E OF TECHNOLOGY BARKER JUN O7 2004 LIBRARIES

The Retrofitting of Existing Buildings For Seismic Criteria

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