Earthquake Resistant Building Construction

This book is written with the motto to bring general awareness about earthquakes and earthquake resistant features of a building among engineers, architects and general public. The book deals with the earthquake resistant design and construction of buildings. It describes design provision of Indian Standards Uniform Building Code (United States), National Building Code of Canada and Mexico Federal District Code. It lucidly presents the technique to make a building earthquake resistant by certain improvements in masonry buildings, proper ductile detailing of RCC structures and by incorporating latest techniques of base isolation.