An innovative and eco-friendly foundation system to enhance the resilience of low-rise buildings

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Title

An innovative and eco-friendly foundation system to enhance the resilience of low-rise buildings

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Description

A multi-disciplinary geo-structural-environmental engineering project funded by the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE) is being carried out at the University of Canterbury. The project aims at developing an eco-friendly seismic isolation foundation system which will improve the seismic performance of medium-density low-rise buildings. Such system is characterized by two main elements: 1) granulated scrap rubber mixed with gravelly soils to be placed beneath the structure, w...

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Research paper

Research format

Conference paper

Date created

2019

Creator

Chiaro G / Palermo A / Granello G / Hernandez E

URL

http://hdl.handle.net/10092/17809

Related subjects

Engineering / Civil engineering / Construction materials / Earthquake engineering / Construction engineering

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