PRESENTATION PART 1

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OPENINGS IN WALLS
Figure 17
Figure 17
Figure 17
 STRUCTURAL DETAIL OF WALL

Figure 17
 EARTHQUAKE
RESISTANT MEASURES
IN RC BUILDINGS
BUILDINGS ON HILL SLOPES
the beams must be the weakest links and not
the columns this can be achieved by
appropriately sizing the members and providing
correct amount of steel reinforcement in them.
Figure 17
BUILDING WITH SOFT FIRST STOREY
BUILDING WITH SOFT FIRST STOREY
Collapse of open ground storey RC frame residential building in Bhuj.
BUILDING WITH SOFT FIRST STOREY

GROUND STOREY IS TO BE DESIGNED FOR 2.5 TIMES

STOREY SHEARS
SHORT COLUMN EFFECT IN FRAME
BUILDINGS
Beams in RC Buildings
Columns
Buildings with Shear Walls
Buj Earthquake 2001
Bhuj Earthquake 2001
Collapse of intermediate storey in a 6-storey RC frame
commercial building at Bhuj.
Ground storey collapse of a 4-storey building with open ground storey at Bhuj.
 Collapse of one-half of the 14-storey RC frame residential
apartment building in Ahmedabad; the collapsed portion had a
swimming pool on the roof, unlike the other half that is standing.