{"id":9084,"date":"2022-10-27T07:17:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T01:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9084"},"modified":"2025-03-29T11:09:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T05:39:43","slug":"semi-confined-unreinforced-brick-masonry-sc-urbm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/semi-confined-unreinforced-brick-masonry-sc-urbm\/","title":{"rendered":"Semi-Confined Unreinforced Brick Masonry (SC-URBM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About\u00a0Semi-Confined Unreinforced Brick Masonry (SC-URBM):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Most buildings, technically called unreinforced masonry (URM), were\u00a0<strong>not built using modern building codes.\u00a0<\/strong>Thus they are much more likely to experience damage or collapse during an earthquake.<\/li>\n<li>SC-URBM can resolve the problem of spread of settlements in earthquake-prone areas with constructions that have been built without following earthquake-preventive building codes.<\/li>\n<li>SC-URBM can significantly\u00a0<strong>enhance the energy dissipation capacity and ductility of the retrofitted building without compromising its strength<\/strong>. Hence such buildings would have resulting superior performance in comparison to URBM buildings during earthquakes.<\/li>\n<li>It involves\u00a0<strong>embedding of reinforced concrete (RC) bands<\/strong>\u00a0through the partial thickness of the wall and can be implemented or retrofitted in old buildings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source <\/strong><strong>:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1870985\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SC-URBM can resolve the problem of spread of settlements in earthquake-prone areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}