One of the most frightening of natural disasters - an earthquake, leaves behind instantaneous destruction, loss of life and despair on a scale that is mind boggling. And most of it due to collapsing structures and dwellings unable to withstand the tremors. People lucky enough to be outdoors manage to escape while people caught indoors get trapped or perish. Hence the importance of constructing earthquake resistant houses and buildings is known in earthquake experienced areas where architects and engineers plan accordingly.
This lens I hope provides a valuable glimpse of some of the study that has been made in designing earthquake resistant dwellings.
This lens I hope provides a valuable glimpse of some of the study that has been made in designing earthquake resistant dwellings.
Building Earthquake resistant structures
- Earthquake resistant buildings
- Earthquake-proof versus Earthquake Resistant
- Hydraform Earthquake - Resistant System
- Hydraform - used successfully in earthquake-stricken regions of Argentina and India. In Argentina.
- Guidelines for Earthquake Resistant Buildings
- Earthquake Resistant Provisions in Masonry Buildings with Strip Foundation
- Earthquakes and Seismic Waves
- Lecture notes of Prof. Stephen A. Nelson Tulane University
- Earthquake Engineering
- Illustrates structural and architectural engineering problems and solutions in attaining efficient earthquake-resistant structures and facilities.
- Earthquake-Resistant construction in Japan
- The experience of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake led to a rush on the construction of condominiums boasting "earthquake resistance."
- Stanford engineers design self-righting buildings that survive earthquake test - By Louis Bergeron
- Stanford engineers and others create a structural design that lets buildings rock during earthquakes, then pull themselves into plumb when the shaking stops, confining damage to replaceable steel "fuses."
- Use of Bamboo for house construction
- Utilization of bamboo as a major component of housing construction in earthquake-prone areas think it's time, given the durability of the earthquake.
- Bamboo - Green Construction for the Future?
- Based on the growing worldwide acceptance of bamboo as a building material, the World Bamboo Organization recently drafted bamboo construction codes which are slowly being incorporated into many local building codes
- Earthquake survival tips
- Discussion on earthquake survival
- Moladi construction technology
- A lightweight, modular, reusable construction system resistant to earthquakes, cyclones and tsunamis.
- Earthquake resistant steel structures
- Fabrication of earthquake resistant steel structures
Japan Earthquake March 2011
- Google crisis response/ missing people finder
- Relevant information regarding the Japanese 2011 earthquake and tsunami; Disaster message boards, emergency water and food distribution, shelter information, blackouts, transportation status
Disaster Risk Reduction
- Centre for disaster risk reduction in India
- A full fledged research centre to study various disaster risk mitigation issues.
- World Earthquake information by country and region
- Comprehensive site providing detailed information on earthquakes
Software relevant to disaster risk mitigation
- Oasys - software suite (Free for students and academics)
- Software for structural analysis and dynamic response during earthquakes Also provided free-of-charge to students and educational establishments solely for teaching and research.
- StruCalc - software for designing earthquake safe buildings
- Intuitive design software for designing earthquake resistant structures and buildings. 7 day free trial download available.
Books
- Modern Bamboo Structures: Proceedings of the First International Conference By Yan Xiao, Masafumi Inoue, Shyam K. Paudel
- Earthquake resistant bamboo structures Japan
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vancehira
Dec 14, 2011 @ 6:00 am | delete
- From a simplistic standpoint, an earthquake places a sideways load on a building. So in addition to making a building, bridge or any other structure, capable of holding up forces of gravity caused by the weight of the structure and its contents, an earthquake resistant structure can withstand a considerable sideways force, this is done by tying the walls, floor, roof and foundations into a rigid box.
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Churchmouse
Oct 23, 2011 @ 4:54 pm | delete
- Thank you for this - fascinating, and very topical for our stricken city.
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mepdesignservices
Aug 26, 2011 @ 4:36 am | delete
- Great lens. Thanks for sharing such a nice lens.
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mepdesignservices
Aug 26, 2011 @ 4:36 am | delete
- Great lens. Thanks for sharing such a nice lens.
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mhosong72 Jul 9, 2011 @ 12:02 am | delete
- Hi! this is a very great lens. I just press like-button and add this lens in my lens name is "What are Earthquake" Don't miss for check its. Thanks for your sharing.
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WorldVisionary3
Jun 4, 2011 @ 9:35 pm | delete
- Loved this lens. Thumbs up!
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mepengineeringindia
Dec 14, 2010 @ 1:11 am | delete
- Great lens!!
I like posted lens it. Is very informative for renders.
Please post more and more related info.
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Nov 10, 2010 @ 2:01 pm | delete
- Cool lens!
Some good info I've found here!
Thanks for posting!
Regards,
Linda
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Sep 5, 2010 @ 2:40 pm | delete
- Thumbs up!
Great lens... very informative. Thanks for the good read.
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