Aseismic Constitution Problems and Strengthening Methods of Chinese Ancient Wooden Buildings

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Chinese ancient wooden buildings have good aseismic constitutions to survive sorts of natural disasters. However, under earthquakes damages still occur on some of them. To protect Chinese ancient wooden buildings, typical aseismic constitution problems as well as strengthening methods of their members were studied by classification and statistical methods. Based on survey results on large number of Chinese ancient wooden buildings, typical aseismic constitution problems were summed up, causes for the problems were analyzed and the corresponding strengthening methods were proposed. By 2 compared examples, typical strengthening methods were further demonstrated. Results show that typical aseismic constitution problems of Chinese ancient wooden buildings include decay of column root, slack of Tou-Kung, tenon pulled out of mortise, cracks of beam and column and so on; to solve these problems, methods such as replacement, wrap, connection, ensemble and so on are feasible.

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