Rehabilitation of Buildings damaged due to Earth Quake

Abstract

Any structure can take limit amount of load or stress and it fails beyond that. Structural failure can be caused by different reasons and Earth Quake is one of them. Earth Quake damages the building when Earth Quake loading is greater than its design strength. Once the building is damaged, it either collapses or loses the serviceability and safety and the building cannot be used for the purpose it was made for. The serviceability and safety can be restored and this process is called rehabilitation of building. The process of rehabilitation involves different Engineering techniques. The choice of technique depends upon nature and amount of damage and cost available to restore the strength and sometimes the time available to repair the facility. This project is basically covering the details on common techniques that can be applied for rehabilitation of concrete and masonry buildings. These buildings can be residential, commercial, industrial or government facility. Each structural component in the building has its own techniques of repairing. Hence the major scope is to enlist and explain the engineering solutions through different statistical, theoretical and practical analysis.