Tuesday 20 March 2012

TO IMPROVE THE PERFORMANCE OF MY WALL IN SEISMIC EVENTS, WILL I NEED TO PUT A LOT OF BED JOINT REINFORCEMENT?

For seismic events, the reinforcement itself will improve the mechanical behaviour of the wall because of its ductile properties.

However for the same reasons given previously, this cannot be assigned stability of the wall to the reinforcement itself.

For the reinforcement to be calculated into seismic effects, it should be accompanied by other elements of retention, such as anchors to the pillars.



Steel for Bricks, Zaragoza, Bed joint reinforcement