Behaivour of Earthquake Resisting Masonry Building As Per Is 4326:1993
Behaivour of Earthquake Resisting Masonry Building As Per Is 4326:1993
Behaivour of Earthquake Resisting Masonry Building As Per Is 4326:1993
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Solution:
1. Add ties at closer spacing. Preferably spiral ties.
2. Provide masonry walls on either side equal to twice the opening
sizes by reducing the openings.
3. The best solution is to avoid the opening so that no captive column
is created.
CAPTIVE COLUMNS: SOLUTIONS.
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SOFT STOREY:
This case is usually by providing car park at the ground floor.
In this case try to provide masonry walls as possible as to
provide stiffness to columns.
Often the best solution is to provide seismic separation joints to ensure independent
movements of the parts, as shown in Figure 2. The width of the joints should not be
less than 30 mm.
When the building height exceeds 9 m the width of the joints is to be increased by
10 mm for each additional height of 3 m.
In order to ensure structural integrity, vertical confining elements
should be located at all corners and recesses of the building, and at all
joints and wall intersections.
In addition, they should be placed at both sides of any wall opening
whose area exceeds 2.5 m2 (Figure 14.)
Walls:General Principles
• Walls are to be uniformly distributed along each principal axis of
the plan.