DEOGIRI INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT

STUDIES,AURANGABAD

ADVANCED EARTHQUAKE
RESISTANT DESIGN
Presented by Guided by
shaikh mansur Prof. S. Salve
 Contents
 Introduction
 What is earthquake
 What causes earthquake
 Zone of earthquake
 How earthquake causes damage
 Protection against earthquake damage
 Dampers & earthquake resistant expansion joint
 Engineering structure
 conclusion
 Introduction
 Whenever there is an earthquake related disaster
in the news with collapsed buildings &other
structure all over the place, one may think that
earthquake resistant design(EQRD) of structure
are still in dark age.
 Thus we desperately need advanced earthquake
resistant design to make structure less vulnerable
to earthquake even for large earthquake.
CONT……
Engineering Seismology is concerned with
the solution of engineering problems
connected with the Earthquakes.
Seismology is extremely important
because:
Study of earthquakes gives us important
clues about the earth’s interior
Understanding earthquakes allows us to
minimize the damage and loss of life
 What is an earthquake?
 An earthquake is the vibration of Earth produced
by the rapid release of accumulated energy in
elastically strained rocks
 Energy released radiates in all directions from its
source, the focus
 Energy propagates in the form of seismic waves

 Sensitive instruments around the world record the

event
 What causes an earthquake?
Movement of Tectonic Plates
Earth is divided into sections called
Tectonic plates that float on the fluid-like
interior of the Earth. Earthquakes are
usually caused by sudden movement of
earth plates
Rupture of rocks along a fault
Faults are localized areas of weakness in
the surface of the Earth,sometimes the
plate boundary itself
Release of Accumulated energy
 How Earthquake Causes
Damage
 The severe shaking produced by seismic
waves can damage or destroy building &
bridges , topple utility poles & fracture gas
and water mains.
 S wave can put stress on building to tear
them apart. Also trigger landslide or
avalanches.
 Construction Methods
 Base-isolation are designed in buildings .
It is a building designed to reduce amount
of energy that reaches the building during
earthquake.
 Flexible joints and automatic shut off
valves can be installed.
PROTECTING AGAINST EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE
 Prepare a Seismic Risk Map for the globe which identifies rock
types, liquefaction potential, landslide potential.

 Extensive geologic surveying has to be done to identify all active

faults, including hidden faults.

Earthquake Resistant Design of Structures

•Enact building codes to design and build earthquake-resistant
structures in high seismic risk areas.
• wood, steel and reinforced concrete are preferred as they tend
to move with the shaking ground (unreinforced concrete and
heavy masonry tend to move independently and in opposition
to the shaking, battering one another until the structure
collapses)
Earthquake resistant
expansion joint(ERJ)
 Engineer Structure
 Buildings need to be designed and constructed as per
the building by laws to withstand ground shaking.
 Architectural and engineering inputs need to be put
together to improve building design and construction
practices.
 The soil type needs to be analyzed before construction.
Building structures on soft soil should be avoided.
 Buildings on soft soil are more likely to get damaged
even if the magnitude of the earthquake is not strong ..
 Conclusion
 In the coming years the work in the field of
earthquake resistance design (EQRD) is
very important to have safe structures
which can take the effect of earthquake
with less damage to the society.
THANK YOU…