I am concerned that this may work up to a certain maximum earthquake load and then it will fail spectacularly as you will have total disintegration, just like in other unreinforced masonry structures. Steel reinforced concrete post and beam structures tend to fail more gracefully due to the ductility of the steel, unless posts are damaged at critical points. Personally I would trust reinforcing steel more than rubber joints. You are already using concrete for the blocks and with a similar expense as the hundreds of steel encapsulated rubber dampers, you might as well use steel reinforcements. Also, walls are not a complete building system. What happens when you plaster these walls, which is required for water proofing?
I studied mortarless masonry infill in RC frames in my thesis. Great job, machu pichu will be built again in the future, ha?:):)
I am concerned that this may work up to a certain maximum earthquake load and then it will fail spectacularly as you will have total disintegration, just like in other unreinforced masonry structures. Steel reinforced concrete post and beam structures tend to fail more gracefully due to the ductility of the steel, unless posts are damaged at critical points. Personally I would trust reinforcing steel more than rubber joints. You are already using concrete for the blocks and with a similar expense as the hundreds of steel encapsulated rubber dampers, you might as well use steel reinforcements.
Also, walls are not a complete building system. What happens when you plaster these walls, which is required for water proofing?
How long with these visco-elastic links last? And how would you replace those?
Thank you
What are the materials of the blocks that use. Is that an ordinary blocks or its the same of autoclave aerated block (aac blocks)
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The yanni music was the right decision.
Unburnt compressed mud bricks can used.