After
the earthquake which has been occurred in East Africa just 2 days ago and
destroyed many buildings, we wonder to build an earthquake-proof building.
During a very strong earthquake, even the best engineered building may suffer
severe damage. Engineers design buildings to withstand as much sideways motion
as possible in order to minimize damage to the structure and give the occupants
time to get out safely.
Buildings are
basically designed to support a vertical load in order to support the walls,
roof and all occupants to keep them standing. Earthquakes present a lateral, or
sideways, load to the building structure that is a bit more complicated to
account for. One way to make a simple structure more resistant to these lateral
forces is to tie the walls, floor, roof, and foundations into a rigid box that
holds together when shaken by a quake.
The
most dangerous building construction, from an earthquake point of view, is
unreinforced brick or concrete block. Generally, this type of
construction has walls that are made of bricks stacked on top of each other and
held together with mortar. The roof is laid across the top. The
weight of the roof is carried straight down through the wall to the foundation.
When this type of construction is subject to a lateral force from an earthquake
the walls overturn from normal position and the roof falls in like a house of
cards. From this we use reinforced concrete in sup structure as plinth beams,
middle and continues lintel. For more information contact RICIltd at bizididace1@gmail.com and emmanueltwizeyimana71@yahoo.com
This photo shows the
distribution of reinforcement in the building
its very good by how you can reinforced the bricks by using links?
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