EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

B.V.M. ENGINEERING COLLEGE, V.V.NAGAR

Questions from EARTHQUAKE TIPS :::

EQ Tips 1 – 4 :

1) Explain the Phenomenon of occurrence of Earthquakes.

2) Explain: Elastic Rebound Theory.
3) Explain: Types of Earthquakes & Faults.
4) Explain: Types of Seismic Waves.
5) What is PGA?
6) Define: Epicenter, Hypocenter, Magnitude, Intensity, and Isoseismals.
7) What is the need of Seismic Zones in India?

EQ Tips 5 – 11 :

8) What is Inertia Force? Explain with sketch how they are transferred to
the Soil?
9) Generally Masonry walls fails more in comparison to RCC members.
Why?
10)Buildings with Weak story; Buildings on sloping ground; Buildings with
floating columns behave poorly during Earthquakes. Justify.
11) What is pounding?
12)How buildings twist during Earthquakes?
13)Explain: Earthquake Resistant Design Philosophy
14)Good Ductile behaviour of the buildings during Earthquakes is
acceptable. Justify.
15)Explain: Capacity Design Concept using chain analogy.
16)Why Strong Column-Weak Beam Design concept is preferred in
Earthquake Resistant Design.
17)Damage to Non-Structural components in very Flexible buildings is
significant. Why?
18)Which are the four important virtues that the buildings should have for
good seismic performance?

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EQ Tips 12 – 16 :

19)Explain the behaviour of masonry walls during Earthquakes. How it can

be improved?
20)Masonry buildings with small openings and as far as away from the
corners have performed well during past earthquakes. Justify.
21)Buildings with plan shapes L, T, E, Y are to be separated with simple
rectangular block for better seismic performance. Why?
22)Explain: Types of Bends to be provided in the masonry buildings and its
importance.
23)Why is vertical reinforcement required in masonry buildings?
24)List the important Earthquake Resistant features in Stone masonry
buildings.

EQ Tips 17 – 24 :

25)Explain: Rigid Floor Diaphragm action.

26)Reinforcement is required on both faces in Structural members for the
Good Seismic design. Justify.
27)Explain: Types of failure in Beam.
28)Describe the importance of stirrups in RCC beams & its requirement as
per IS: 13920-1993.
29)Why are closely spaced horizontal closed ties are provided in columns?
30)Column c/s size plays an important role in Beam-Column Joint during
Earthquake shaking. Explain.
31)Differentiate: Soft storey and Weak storey.
32)Open ground storey buildings have shown poor performance during
past Earthquakes. Why?
33)Explain Short Column Effect. What are the measures to prevent it?
34)Explain Role of Shear walls in Seismic performance of Buildings.
35)What is Boundary Element? RC walls with boundary elements are less
susceptible to earthquake damage than the walls without boundary
elements.
36)What is Base Isolation? How does this technique works?