A measure for multiple bends and shear damage of RC rigid-frame bridge

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A measure for seismic multiple bends and shear damage

Along these lines, this paper proposes a novel seismic damage measure, the piecewise drift ratio (PDR), involving both shear effects and multiple-bend deformations; it has been validated