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In the past severe earthquake all over the world, the masonry buildings have generally been damaged the most because of their heavy weight, small or no tensile strength, small shearing resistance, lack of proper bonding between longitudinal and cross walls and poor workmanship. Yet such buildings are being put up in the conventional way for reasons of climatic suitability, low-cost, local availability of materials, widespread knowledge of methods of construction etc. It is quite apparent that it will not be possible to do away with this kind of construction in the seismic areas particularly in India and other developing countries. Census of Housing in India has shown that the number of housing units using burnt brick as the wall material was 111.9 million in 2001 which has increased to 146.5 million in 2011 Census showing an increase of 31% in 10 years. Therefore, finding effective methods of strengthening such buildings is of paramount importance so that the danger to life and property during future earthquake is minimized. An important requirement of such methods is that they should be cheap and easily applicable.
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Arya, A.S. (2018). Earthquake Resistant Design of Masonry Buildings. In: Sharma, M., Shrikhande, M., Wason, H. (eds) Advances in Indian Earthquake Engineering and Seismology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76855-7_12
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