Low-cost improvement to the seismic safety of adobe construction: Strips cut from used car tyres

8th US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering 2006

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 1395-1404

  Charleson, A W ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOBE HOUSE; ECOLOGICAL PROBLEM; ECONOMIC MODELS; IN-PLANE LOADS; OUT-OF-PLANE; SEISMIC SAFETY; SEISMIC VULNERABILITY; SHEAR REINFORCEMENT; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; TREAD AREA; USED VEHICLES;

AUTOMOBILES; CIVIL ENGINEERING; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT; SEISMOLOGY;

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EID: 84865854160     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (3)

1. Charleson, A. W. and French, M. A., 2005. Improving seismic safety of adobe construction with used car-tyre strips: preliminary investigations, Proceedings of the conference of the NZ Society for Earthquake Engineering, 11-13 March, Paper 32.
2. Hirani, A. R., 2005. An investigation into the potential use of used rubber tyres in adobe construction, unpublished report prepared at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.
3. IAEE. 2004. Guidelines for earthquake resistant non-engineered construction. (Revised edition of Basic Concept of Seismic Codes, Volume 1, Part 2, 1980, International Association for Earthquake Engineering, Tokyo), reprinted by the National Information Centre of Earthquake Engineering, Kanpur, India.