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3 years ago

What can engineers do to prevent structures from collapsing during earthquakes

Physics

1 answer:

vredina [299]3 years ago

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Explanation:

1. The structures should be made with good quality steel and concrete so that they can bear load and deformation.

2. Buildings should be made laterally strong so that they can overcome dominant lateral forces.

3. In High seismic activity areas devices such as energy absorbers should be used. Base isolation must necessarily be done.

4. Use of hybrid Fiber Reinforced Concrete to increase the toughness of a structure in a Moment Resisting Frame. Moment resisting frames are frames that resist moment of any devices.

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(b) Frequency of the wave
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3 years ago

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Answer:

24.084 m/s

Explanation:

From the law of conservation of linear momentum

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Making $V_{truck}$ the subject we obtain

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zimovet [89]

Answer:

a)θ=71.89°

b)NO

Explanation:

Given that

For glass n= 1.38

We know that for air n'=1

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sin θc=n'/n

By putting the values

sin θc=n'/n

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