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Soft-Story Seismic Retrofits for Residential Structures

On 17 January 1994, a powerful and disastrous 6.7 magnitude earthquake hit Los Angles. Historically known as the Northridge Earthquake, the devastating occurrence brought the expert’s attention to the most fundamental flaws in building construction. Most people had on their mind was; why did an intricate buckle when a plethora of different buildings continued to […]