What is the traditional seismic design method?

structural designer

The traditional earthquake resistance means "strengthening with rigidity", that is, improving the strength and rigidity of building structures to resist earthquake action. It's easy to understand

It means strengthening concrete, using more steel bars and so on.

compared with the traditional seismic design, the concept of "structural shock absorption" is not widely used in domestic structural design. However, Japan, as a country that survived the earthquake, has already had many successful practices.

For example, a section of stairs is set as a sliding bearing to release the internal force of the structure caused by earthquake.

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