WHY ARE EARTHQUAKES STILL SO DEVASTATING
Potential earthquake regions are well known and construction techniques are available in order to build earthquake resistant buildings. Regulations taking the seismic action into account are implemented. Despite a large understanding and knowledge earthquakes are, and will be devastating for the following reasons: a) Earthquakes do not occur often. Events not occurring regularly at short intervals do not influence the construction technique of non-engineered constructions. Design rules are not applied because of the absence of an imminent danger. b) Design rules established by the scientific community are not understood by the builders and are not applied. c) Houses are often built by tradesmen without any knowledge of seismic design. Simple design rules are not known by individual builders and are therefore not applied.
Seismic hazard construction technique non-engineered construction damage
Hans Hausammann
Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering , Bern University of Applied Sciences, Burgdorf, Switzerland
国际会议
14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering(第十四届国际地震工程会议)
北京
英文
2008-10-12（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）