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Advances in Civil Engineering
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 536171, 12 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/536171
Research Article
Effect of Ground Motion Directionality on Fragility Characteristics of a Highway Bridge
1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
2Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Received 1 June 2011; Accepted 27 August 2011
Academic Editor: Manolis Papadrakakis
Copyright © 2011 Swagata Banerjee Basu and Masanobu Shinozuka. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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