Ariel engineers put houses on firmer footing
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Apartment buildings and houses built on pillars are at high risk in an earthquake . Most such buildings here were constructed in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, when there was less awareness of the relationship between structure and the risk of collapse.
But now researchers in civil engineering at the Ariel University Center in Samaria claim to have developed a way to retrofit pillars to make such buildings safer.
Dr. Yuri Ribakov and engineer Vladimir Briman published an article in the international journal The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings (www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120847777/abstract). They suggest replacing existing exposed pillars with improved versions. The old ones are replaced by structures that carry the building's weight until the new ones are installed
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Sunday 7 September, 2008 11:32 AM |
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