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Title

Sistemas estructurales de la arquitectura habitacional de la ciudad de Colima en el siglo XX : transformación constructiva y vulnerabilidad sísmica / Julio de Jesús Mendoza Jiménez.

Author

Mendoza Jiménez, Julio de Jesús,

Publication

Colima : Universidad de Colima, c2011.

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Universidad de Colima. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87102742

Description

268 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

On January 22, 2003, a major earthquake (magnitude of 7.8) occurred near the city of Colima (Mexico). The earthquake lasted for approximately 45 seconds. Twenty-nine people were killed (and more than 300 injured) causing a large amount of damage to the architecture and urban structure of the city. Soon after almost 11 thousand houses were studied and classified in two major categories: for their structural system and for their level of damage. The present book offers a study of the vulnerability of the residential architecture constructed in the end of the 19th century and early decades of the 20th century in the historic downtown of the city. The author analyzed, classified and established correlation of 42 cases that have in common their capacity to resist the 5 most severe earthquakes of the region in the last 100 years.

Subjects

• Earthquakes > Mexico > Colima (Colima)
• Architecture, Domestic > Mexico > Colima (Colima)
• Architecture, Modern > Mexico > Colima (Colima) > 20th century
• Buildings > Earthquake effects > Mexico > Colima (Colima)

Note

• Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)-- Universidad de Colima, 2008.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-232)

Language (note)

• In Spanish.

Contents

Introducción -- Colima siglos XVI-XIX -- Sistemas estructurales y nivel de daño sísmico -- Vulnerabilidad y resistencia estructural -- Conclusiones

ISBN

• 9786079136123
• 6079136120

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library