Cultural Heritage and Natural Disasters

Introduction earthquakes are frequently of short duration, but great forces arise during their action and can cause extensive da ...

80 Wolfram Jäger, Denny Napitupulu ftk - characteristic tensile strength of masonry fk - characteristic compressive strength of ...

Possibilities of Earthquake and Disaster Preparedness for Masonry Structures 81 (»dry-stone walls«). usually the walls of Incan ...

82 Wolfram Jäger, Denny Napitupulu Earthquakes and typical damages Most of the stresses that cause earthquakes can be explained ...

Possibilities of Earthquake and Disaster Preparedness for Masonry Structures 83 happen in the form of a landslide down a hill, w ...

84 Wolfram Jäger, Denny Napitupulu Improvement of integrity14 The integrity of masonry can be improved by applying anchors for t ...

Possibilities of Earthquake and Disaster Preparedness for Masonry Structures 85 observations showed that the freely supported wo ...

86 Wolfram Jäger, Denny Napitupulu Reinforcement tensile failure of the bed joints or the units can be avoided by vertical reinf ...

Introduction In the morning of 26 december 2003 the world woke up to news of an earthquake in Iran, in which an entire city was ...

88 Randolph Langenbach any one individual.1 The fact that people do not have the opportunity to evacuate structures prior to an ...

Understanding What Works: Learning from Earthquake Resistant Traditional Construction 89 Thousands have already died in this typ ...

90 Randolph Langenbach problem of earthquake hazard reduction cannot be seen primarily as an engineering problem. It is fundamen ...

Understanding What Works: Learning from Earthquake Resistant Traditional Construction 91 by having a complete timber frame, with ...

92 Randolph Langenbach question of whether timber-laced masonry construction evolved in response to the earthquake risk is an in ...

Understanding What Works: Learning from Earthquake Resistant Traditional Construction 93 de Pombal (which is why it is also call ...

94 Randolph Langenbach the almost universal acceptance of the concrete moment frame as a standard form of construction, and of l ...

Understanding What Works: Learning from Earthquake Resistant Traditional Construction 95 Instead of the existing method of const ...

96 Randolph Langenbach even though reinforced concrete buildings are often much larger and taller, their performance with arma- ...

Understanding What Works: Learning from Earthquake Resistant Traditional Construction 97 Conclusion one of the problems that pla ...

98 Randolph Langenbach References dikmen, nes ̧e (2005): a Provision Model and design Guidelines for Permanent Post-disaster Hou ...