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Artículo de publicación ISIConcepción, near the southern end of the fault rupture zone of the offshore Maule, Chile earthquake, suffered signifi cant damage to all types of structures. Tall reinforced concrete buildings in the region were also affected, some severely. Spectacular collapse and partial collapse were experienced in two buildings, and many buildings had failure of thin shear walls that lacked suffi cient boundary element confi nement. Concrete spalling and crushing occurred and reinforcing steel buckled and were sometimes fractured

Artículo de publicación ISIThere are many modern tall buildings in Santiago that were subjected to the 27 February 2010 earthquake in Chile. Although there was not widespread damage in Santiago, there was notable damage to some tall concrete buildings that may have resulted from lack of proper detailing, the absence of 135° seismic hooks and inadequate confi nement of walls in the boundary zones. These caused buckling of the main bars and tension compression failure of the walls