Adequacy of existing house foundations for resisting earthquakes
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Title (Dublin Core)
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Adequacy of existing house foundations for resisting earthquakes
Description (Dublin Core)
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The past performance of foundations in earthquakes for timber dwellings prompted a practical investigation into the adequacy of existing sub-floor bracing, connection capacity and the overall adherence to NZS3604:1999. Using information gathered from a sample of 80 Wellington dwellings and by using the results from an Earthquake Loss modeller, it was found that the cost of upgrading “at risk” foundations is almost 30 times less expensive than the complete cost of rebuilding dwellings. Potential damage mitigation saves around 5 times the calculated total damage costs. This saving has the potential to reduce temporary shelter costs and other large unknown costs of post-earthquake rehabilitation and reconstruction.
Creator (Dublin Core)
Irvine, J. D.
Thomas, Geoff C.
Publisher (Dublin Core)
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New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering
Date (Dublin Core)
2008-03-31
Type (Dublin Core)
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Article
Format (Dublin Core)
application/pdf
Identifier (Dublin Core)
https://bulletin.nzsee.org.nz/index.php/bnzsee/article/view/16
10.5459/bnzsee.41.1.31-37
Source (Dublin Core)
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Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering; Vol 41 No 1 (2008); 31-37
2324-1543
1174-9857
Language (Dublin Core)
eng
Relation (Dublin Core)
https://bulletin.nzsee.org.nz/index.php/bnzsee/article/view/16/6
Rights (Dublin Core)
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Copyright (c) 2008 J. D. Irvine, Geoff C. Thomas
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
