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Strong earthquake motion used to destroy many brick structures and killed many people. Figure 7.1 illustrates an example in Tokyo in which a brick tower of 12 storeys was destroyed in the middle. In those days there was no clear idea to design structures against earthquake effects. The same mechanism of collapse is still seen widely in many nonengineered structures in the world and the number of victims is substantial.
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Towhata, I. (2008). Pseudostatic Limit Equilibrium Analysis. In: Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering. Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-35783-4_7
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