Safety Issues for Underpinning

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The Construction Design and Management Regulations (commonly known as the CDM Regulations) were re-introduced in April 2007 after initial ...
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How to Diagnosis Structural Failure due to Ground Movement

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Diagonal structural cracks indicate serious structural failure but, not all distortions and cracks in buildings are necessarily due to gro...

An Introduction to Tuned Mass Dampers

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Various methods are discovered and some are used to control vibrations produced by earthquake or wind. These are modifying rigidities, mas...
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Japan Trench : A Sorrow of Japan

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Friday, March 11, 2011 at 02:46:24 PM at 38.297°N, 142.372°E location a devastating earthquake occurred off the coast of Japan. This quake...

Impact of 2011 Japan Megathrust on Fossil Fuels Energy Sector of Japan

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March 11, 2011 the Great East Japan Earthquake was the most powerful known earthquake to have hit Japan, and one of the five most powerful...

What is Japan Trench?

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Location:  The Japan Trench is a part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, in the floor of the northern Pacific Ocean off northeast Japan. This is...

Japan Trench : A Zone of Megathrust

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Friday, March 11, 2011 at 02:46:24 PM at 38.297°N, 142.372°E location a devastating earthquake occurred off the coast of Japan. This quak...

Sears Tower: A Modified Tube Structure

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A tube framed structure is a three dimensional space structure composed of three, four, or possibly more frames, braced frames, or shear w...

Why Should You Live In A Skyscrapers of Several Hundred Metre High?

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Craze of touching the sky is the instinct of human from the early age of history. With the invent of aero plane man has developed the new ...

India - Disaster Management Vs Real Estate- the Need to Upgrade Buildings of 2002 Vintage and Older

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This may come as a rude shock to many, but the reality is that buildings designed and constructed before 2002 do not even meet the minimum...

Black Cotton Soils in United States

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In the previous post different aspects of black cotton soil and its distribution in India and Africa are discussed. Do you know the status...

Tectonic Cause of Magnitude 6.9 earthquake of Sikim, India 2011 September 18

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A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strike sikim, india on Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 06:10:48 PM at epicenter. The location coordinates are 27...

Predicted travel times of P wave of Magnitude 6.8 Earthquake of SIKKIM, INDIA 2011 September 18

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The map below shows the predicted  travel times of  the compressional (P) wave from the earthquake location to points around the world.  S...