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COMPATIBILITY OF CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS IN DIFFERENT GEO-CLIMATIC REGIONS OF INDIA FOR EARTHQUAKE SAFETYAuthors: Ganesh Kumar Ramancharla,Pradeep Kumar Ramancharla Conference: 17 th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (WCEE 2020) Pages: 1-9 Location Japan Date: 2020-09-13 Report no: IIIT/TR/2020/87 AbstractIndia is a country which is prone to earthquakes. Many great earthquakes of the world have occurred in India, but still safe earthquake construction practices are not popular yet. This is mainly due to lack of awareness regarding earthquake problems and also earthquake safety features of buildings. On the other hand, India is a country with many diversified building technologies where there is a large variation in selection of building materials and building technologies. Over the ages, building materials and technologies were linked to the geo-climatic conditions of the area and the same is evident from census data of the country. However, during past earthquakes, many buildings collapsed due to the lack of earthquake resistant features in these buildings, resulting in huge life loss. This paper is an attempt to identify the critical earthquake resistant elements in each building typology which is popular in a given region. The same is demonstrated by taking two building typologies i.e., framed buildings and load bearing structures in four different regions i.e., hilly region, plain region, snowfall region and heavy rainfall region. From the above, it is clear that each housing typology can be made earthquake resistant by understanding the role of critical elements and by not deviating from standard design which is safe as well as compatible with geo-climatic conditions of the region. Full paper: pdf Centre for Earthquake Engineering |
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