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Retrofiting and Shake Table Demonstration , Kathmandu, Nepal
Kathmandu Valley Earthquake Risk Management Project (KVERMP)

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1. Demonstration of retrofitting a brick wall with iron rods during the Earthquake Safety Day 2000 Exhibition, Kathmandu, Nepal.

 

  

2. Retrofitting of a building pillar demonstration.

 


3. Demonstration of shake table effects on model of houses retrofitted and not retrofitted.

  

4. Side view of the model houses after few minutes of activating the shake table. Note the house on the right which is not retrofitted. The wall on the back of the house is beginning to fall apart.

 


5. The wall is seen further falling apart here.

 

  

6. The wall of the house which is not retrofitted has intensely begun to fall apart, whereas the retrofitted model house walls are still intact.

 


7. The model house has fallen apart more with the increase of the shake table's intensity.

 

  

8. The model house which was not retrofitted has completely collapsed at the full shake intensity of the shake table.

 

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