A Proposal for a Comprehensive Approach to Safer Non-engineered Houses

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2010-11-01

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Narafu, Tatsuo
Ishiyama, Yuji
Okazaki, Kenji
Ando, Shoichi
Imai, Hiroshi
Pribadi, Krishna S.
Dixit, Amod Mani
Ahmad, Najib
Ali, Qaisar
Türer, Ahmet

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Reducing earthquake disasters in non-engineered houses is an acute issue because they are a main cause of human casualties worldwide. Since non-engineered houses differ from engineered houses in many respects, the authors conducted a comparative study and clarified the characteristics of the former. Based on this study, they found that reducing disasters in non-engineered houses would require appropriate seismic technologies to be adopted by communities and effective channels to disseminate technical knowledge. Further, a comprehensive approach covering a wider field of activity and effort was found to be necessary as users/dwellers of non-engineered houses are low/middle-income people and a professional housing supply sector usually does not exist for such houses. This paper reports on the characteristics of non-engineered houses, indicates the items to be tackled in reducing earthquake disasters in such dwellings, and proposes an approach to safer non-engineered houses consisting of key issues and a comprehensive approach.

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Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), Cultural Studies, Civil and Structural Engineering, Architecture, Building and Construction

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/41676

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Department of Civil Engineering, Article