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Seismic Retrofitting of Existing Stone Masonry Houses: An Overview
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Recurrent earthquakes in the past two decades have taken thousands of lives (e.g., the Kashmir earthquake killed some 80,000 people) and destroyed millions of homes and other buildings. This colossal loss of lives was not because of the earthquake but because people were inside buildings (e.g., stone masonry structures) that were highly vulnerable. The death toll would have been significantly lower, if the structures had been retrofitted with a small fraction of the cost of reconstruction. The past earthquakes have brought out many weaknesses in masonry design and construction practices as these structures behaved unsatisfactorily and sustained major damage. Hence, the safety and retrofitting of existing stone masonry houses are very important. Considerable research work has been directed toward evolving suitable methods of earthquake resistance in stone masonry houses.Despite the availability of such methods, masonry buildings have been damaged in the event of earthquakes, because of the following reasons: (i) lack of awareness, formal training, and technical knowledge in earthquake-resistant construction; (ii) lack of concern about seismic safety because of the infrequent occurrence of earthquakes; (iii) people lack financial resources to meet the earthquake-resistant requirement; and (iv) despite the availability of provisions and recommendations of earthquake-resistant measures to be applied on stone masonry buildings in the form of various codes, and these are rarely being implemented in actual practice. Therefore, in the present study, an overview is presented about how the retrofitting of existing stone masonry houses using different techniques can be implemented to reduce their seismic vulnerability and loss of life.
Seismic Retrofitting of Existing Stone Masonry Houses: An Overview
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2291-4033
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9689-4624
Recurrent earthquakes in the past two decades have taken thousands of lives (e.g., the Kashmir earthquake killed some 80,000 people) and destroyed millions of homes and other buildings. This colossal loss of lives was not because of the earthquake but because people were inside buildings (e.g., stone masonry structures) that were highly vulnerable. The death toll would have been significantly lower, if the structures had been retrofitted with a small fraction of the cost of reconstruction. The past earthquakes have brought out many weaknesses in masonry design and construction practices as these structures behaved unsatisfactorily and sustained major damage. Hence, the safety and retrofitting of existing stone masonry houses are very important. Considerable research work has been directed toward evolving suitable methods of earthquake resistance in stone masonry houses.Despite the availability of such methods, masonry buildings have been damaged in the event of earthquakes, because of the following reasons: (i) lack of awareness, formal training, and technical knowledge in earthquake-resistant construction; (ii) lack of concern about seismic safety because of the infrequent occurrence of earthquakes; (iii) people lack financial resources to meet the earthquake-resistant requirement; and (iv) despite the availability of provisions and recommendations of earthquake-resistant measures to be applied on stone masonry buildings in the form of various codes, and these are rarely being implemented in actual practice. Therefore, in the present study, an overview is presented about how the retrofitting of existing stone masonry houses using different techniques can be implemented to reduce their seismic vulnerability and loss of life.
Seismic Retrofitting of Existing Stone Masonry Houses: An Overview
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2291-4033
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9689-4624
Recurrent earthquakes in the past two decades have taken thousands of lives (e.g., the Kashmir earthquake killed some 80,000 people) and destroyed millions of homes and other buildings. This colossal loss of lives was not because of the earthquake but because people were inside buildings (e.g., stone masonry structures) that were highly vulnerable. The death toll would have been significantly lower, if the structures had been retrofitted with a small fraction of the cost of reconstruction. The past earthquakes have brought out many weaknesses in masonry design and construction practices as these structures behaved unsatisfactorily and sustained major damage. Hence, the safety and retrofitting of existing stone masonry houses are very important. Considerable research work has been directed toward evolving suitable methods of earthquake resistance in stone masonry houses.Despite the availability of such methods, masonry buildings have been damaged in the event of earthquakes, because of the following reasons: (i) lack of awareness, formal training, and technical knowledge in earthquake-resistant construction; (ii) lack of concern about seismic safety because of the infrequent occurrence of earthquakes; (iii) people lack financial resources to meet the earthquake-resistant requirement; and (iv) despite the availability of provisions and recommendations of earthquake-resistant measures to be applied on stone masonry buildings in the form of various codes, and these are rarely being implemented in actual practice. Therefore, in the present study, an overview is presented about how the retrofitting of existing stone masonry houses using different techniques can be implemented to reduce their seismic vulnerability and loss of life.
Seismic Retrofitting of Existing Stone Masonry Houses: An Overview
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Shrikhande, Manish (editor) / Agarwal, Pankaj (editor) / Kumar, P. C. Ashwin (editor) / Vashisht, R. (author) / Padalu, P. K. V. R. (author) / Surana, M. (author)
Symposium in Earthquake Engineering ; 2022 ; Roorkee, India
Proceedings of 17th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering (Vol. 2) ; Chapter: 43 ; 573-590
2023-07-20
18 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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