Earthquakes and Construction of Concrete Buildings
1. What is expected of the material concrete in anticipation of a possible earthquake?
Perfect bonding between concrete and reinforcement of quality
Until it receives the permanent vertical loads (weight of construction, equipment, passengers ...), reinforced concrete may have some flaws that remain hidden (or not). On being shaken by an earthquake, all defects are causes of deterioration accelerated fault perfect cohesion of two component materials, concrete and rebar, and disaggregation sometimes spreads to ruin.
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