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    Reprinted from Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering REPAIR AND UPGRADING OF CONCRETE STRUCTURES IN MEXICO CITY AFTER THE 1985 EARTHQUAKE Denis Mitchell Alain Dandurand Patrick Paultre Volume 15 @ Number6 @ Dec. 1988 Pages 1052 - 1066 [ve Ntonal Resoarch Conse national Council Canada’ de recherches Canada Pte Carats a me Réimpression du Revue canadienne de génie civil 1052 Repair and upgrading of concrete structures in Mexico City after the 1985 earthquake DENIS MITCHELL AND ALAIN DANDURAND Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, McGill University, 817 Sherbrooke St. West, Montréal, Qué., Canada H3A 2K6 AND PATRICK PAULTRE Département de Génie Civil, Faculté des Sciences Appliquées, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Qué., Canada JIK 2R1 Received October 22, 1987 Revised manuscript accepted June 16, 1988 The September 19, 1985, magnitude 8.1 earthquake and its magnitude 7.5 aftershock caused unprecedented damage to structures in Mexico City. The types of structural damage and the emergency changes to the building code that occured in 1985 are summarized and a numberof examples of repair and strengthening techniques that were used to satisfy the emergency code requirements are presented ‘Kes words: seismic, earthquake, Mexico, structures, upgrading, repair. Le tremblement de tere de magnitude 8,1 du 19 Septembre 1985 ainsi que la réplique de magnitude 7,5 ont causés des

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