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The papers were drafted by an AI system working under Chazut Foundation's direction. Each paper's method section says where its numbers come from. The structural quantities the platform computes for a paper come from code that gives the same result every time it is run. Where a paper sets them against another source, such as a recomputation made by a separate generative model, the paper names that source itself; where a generative model read the printed values of a study, the paper says so, and says how those readings were checked or recorded. Before a paper is placed on this site, it is checked by review steps separate from the one that drafted it.
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We claim no exclusive right in the text of the papers or of this site's pages. Anyone may link to the papers. Anyone who can open a paper may read and save it, quote from it, and share unchanged copies of it once it is open to every reader of this site, citing it as shown below. Material that the papers quote from the studies they discuss stays its owners' (see Material by others).
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The Colombian seismic building code. The papers apply and cite NSR-10 (Reglamento Colombiano de Construcción Sismorresistente), adopted by Decreto 926 de 2010, and quote it where they need its words.
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