A large number of RC buildings, in India, have been constructed without giving adequate attention to earthquake forces. These buildings require strengthening. Different strengthening strategies can be used for different ...

A Synchronous noise is a broad — band time series, which looks like random noise but has an absolutely flat power spectrum. It is a much stronger version of the white noise as it has exactly equal magnitude at all the ...

A G+ 10 RC building frame with one and two bay has been taken for the study of soft storey problem, analyzed and designed using the five different approaches, viz., (i) IS 1893(Part 1):2002 Code criteria, (ii) Capacity ...

With the increase in the seismicity of the region, as indicated by the upward increment in the zone factor by the current code of practice, alarming number of structures fall into the category of seismically deficient ...

Reinforced concrete bridge columns constructed before mid 1970's are vulnerable to earthquake forces because of lack of ductile detailing provisions. The vulnerability of these columns has been emphasized in San Fernando, ...

Reinforce Earth is a combination of plain soil and reinforcements. Plain soil is good in taking the compression but weak in tension. So reinforcements which are good in taking tension are inserted in the plain soil to ...

Recent earthquakes in many parts of the globe have revealed the issues regarding the vulnerability of existing buildings. The existing building structures, which were designed and constructed according to earlier code ...

The main objective of this dissertation is to study the local site effects on the characteristics of the strong ground motion. Parsimonious staggered grid finite difference method has been used in the computations instead ...

In four decades, significant research effort has been made in studying the behaviour of masonry walls. The masonry wall panel is the basic lateral load-carrying element in the load bearing masonry buildings and framed ...

Housing like food and cloth is a basic need of a human. India is the second most populous nation of the world. With such a large population, housing is an acute problem. Low and middle - income groups find it very difficult ...