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One Day workshop on
“Earthquake Resistant Design of Masonry Structures’
March 11, 2009
A one Day workshop on
“Earthquake Resistant Design of Masonry Structures’
was organized by the Department of Civil Engineering,
Coimbatore Institute of Technology , Coimbatore in
association with United Nations Development Programme(UNDP)
, India on 11th March, 2009 at CIT. This
workshop was organized to bring out the awareness among the
practicing Civil Engineers, the need for providing earthquake
resistant features in masonry buildings and the marginal
increase in cost to achieve this.
CIT has recently
installed a shake Table in the Structural Engineering
Laboratory to test the real life structures when they are
subjected to Earthquake loads. UNDP has sponsored a project to
test the masonry structures with different bonding types and
to suggest ways and means for improving seismic resistance of
the habitats in India. The test results and findings were
presented to the delegates in this one day workshop.
Demonstrations and hands on training were also imparted. About
100 delegates from various parts of the state attended this
workshop.
This workshop was
inaugurated by Dr.A.R.Santhakumar, Emeritus Professor,
Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of
Technology Madras(IITM), Chennai and he delivered lectures
on ‘Condition Assessment of Buildings’ and ‘Retrofit of
Non-Engineered and Masonry Buildings’.
Dr.K.Subramanian,
Chairman
of this workshop delivered lecture on ‘Design and Construction
of Masonry structures with Earthquake Resistant Features’.
Dr.V.G.Srisanthi, Co-ordinator
of the workshop explained and demonstrated the ‘Testing of 3D
Masonry Models with and without Earthquake Resistant Features
using the Shake Table’ in Structural Engineering Laboratory.
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