[net-gold] COUNTRIES: HAITI : DISASTERS: EARTHQUAKES : ARCHITECTURE : ENGINEERING: Haiti Earthquake Revealed the Terrible Cost of Poor Building Design
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- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:46:58 -0500 (EST)
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COUNTRIES: HAITI :
DISASTERS: EARTHQUAKES :
ARCHITECTURE :
ENGINEERING:
Haiti Earthquake Revealed the Terrible Cost of Poor Building Design
Haiti Earthquake Revealed the Terrible Cost of Poor Building Design
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Washington Post
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2010/01/28/AR2010012804745.html>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/yc6mpfw>
The sight of thousands of collapsed structures in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
may lead you to wonder whether a strong earthquake could cause equally
widespread, catastrophic building collapse in an American city.
Fortunately, diligent engineering, up-to-date building codes and sound
construction techniques ensure that many structures in America would
withstand earthquake forces. But could some of our buildings, especially
old ones, be vulnerable if seismic forces are sufficiently strong?
Age, per se, does not determine earthquake survivability, which instead
depends on the inherent strength of a building's overall structural
framework. Old or new, any poorly engineered or cheaply constructed
building always will be vulnerable to severe earthquake-induced damage or
collapse.
Despite their age, many historic buildings can withstand the assaults of
Mother Nature thanks to massive masonry bearing walls, thick masonry or
wood columns, sturdy roof and floor beams, and, equally important, robust
connections tying together the structural elements. Connections are
critical to ensuring that a building's framework is unified and stable.
Of course, we rarely construct buildings as we did in past centuries.
Therefore, how do we ensure that buildings erected today using modern
construction materials and techniques will successfully withstand
earthquakes?
Successfully resisting seismic forces can be accomplished in several ways:
making a building sufficiently rigid, making a building sufficiently
flexible or isolating a building from movement of the earth.
Columns and bearing walls support a building by resisting the vertical
force of gravity and carrying a building's weight to the ground. But
earthquakes, like hurricanes, generate intense horizontal forces that
shake and deform buildings, seriously overstressing a building's
structure.
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