A Case Study of Retrofitting of Structure

Abstract

It is not possible to demolish all the building and build new with earthquake resistant features as demolition and rebuilding is not feasible due to economic, social, psychological and cultural reasons. So, the action required is to improve their behavior by retrofitting/strengthening/rebuilding/restoring/repairing/remolding. The purpose of doing case study is to share the knowledge from particular that is out of usual in one way or another. One of the purposes could be to share hardcore technical information with the technocrats. We set out to study what the retrofitting of building are by searching for further information in different case study.