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Did you know paint could help brick buildings survive quivers?

Author: Adam Lee
by Adam Lee
Posted: Nov 05, 2020

Paint could help reinforce buildings. A lick of paint could help make brick houses earthquake resistant. The paint is made with glass fibers and improves the strength of a building, as well as its flex during shakes. Brick structures are cheap to build but often aren’t very resistant to earthquakes in Nepal. Earthquake Proof Paints is created with a coating to improve their resilience, consisting of standard acrylic-silicone paint resin and glass fibers. This Advanced Paints enhances the building’s overall strength as well as brings significant progress in the field of earthquake damage prevention. The following features of these techniques safeguard buildings from earthquake damage:

Structure flexibility. One of the key elements is to achieve a certain degree of flexibility in the concrete structures to avoid breakage. Acrylic paints are water-based, and when mixed with oil such as silicone the two layers of media will separate from each other. Acrylic sealants are flexible and paintable for caulking, grouting, jointing, and crack filling applications. It is as if the whole building waltzes along in time with the earthquake instead of the dancers treading on each other’s feet.

Compensating pendulums and mass dampers. Although the traditional tuned mass damper is continuously improved and there is a significant improvement in multi frequency tuning capability and stability, the torsional control performance for asymmetry is still deficient. The collapse of a skyscraper is a truly devastating event to be avoided at all costs. That’s why a heavy structure is placed on the top of some tall buildings which behaves like a counterweight in the event of seismic tremors. If the building leans to the left, the counterweight will move to the right and the other way round.

Seismic isolation and energy dissipation systems. The former is used to decouple the building from the bedrock where it’s placed. The basic intention of seismic protection systems is to decouple the building structure from the damaging components of the earthquake input motion, that is, to prevent the superstructure of the building from absorbing the earthquake energy. In that way, the movement just affects the actual isolation system and not the building above. The latter, on the other hand, operate as dampers that absorb the lateral movement of the building. Rigorous reckoning illustrated the isolation system as very innovative and suitable in buildings to withstand the seismic lateral forces and also contributed to safety ensuring flexibility of structures.

Brick Building could be made more earthquake proof with a paint. It improves their overall strength and helps them during earth shakes too.

Brick structures are cheap to build, but often aren't very resistant. These walls carry the load to the foundation of the building.

Because brick is made of soil based clay. It has natural patina and texture that is warm, comforting and impossible replicate. However, long term exposure to unattended water leak and safe too.

The innovative material, simply sprayed on walls, can retrofit even older buildings to protect them from earthquake. Structure should be always very strong of any house. That will help to survive in difficult situation too.

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Asian Paints Nepal started its operation from 1983.It is the largest paint company in Nepal. Remember us for variety of shades, paints and any kind of wall paints.

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