1.Use the small weak cross-sections of beam and wall elements to take the moments at the nodes, instead of using the strong large cross-sections. This goes against science. I use the large strong cross sections.

2. You only use the element cross sections to obtain the earthquake stresses. This goes against science. I use in addition the external ground force to derive earthquake intensities.

3.To increase the strength of the sections you add more reinforcement and concrete increasing the mass which increases the seismic loads without increasing the strength because no matter how many irons you put in the butter the concrete will break once they start pulling.

I am using artificial compression to increase the concrete's active cross section, dynamic, stiffness, and bearing capacity to the lateral earthquake loads and base shear and all shear in general without increasing the mass and by sending the stresses into the ground I am removing them from the cross sections.

4. Concrete in two things does not resist a. tension b. shear. You are forcing it to take tension and shear. Concrete can only withstand compression. But even in compression it can resist compression you have disabled it because as you design only a small part of the cross section receives compression.

I design so that the whole cross-section is active in compression since that is what the prestressing does, secondly I design so that there is no shear failure in the concrete overlay, and I apply compression to counteract the tension which compression is resisted by the concrete.

The new seismic technology aims to solve all existing problems of structures that occur at high seismic ground accelerations.

The method applies controlled artificial compression with a stress ranging at 50% of the strength of the cross-section with a concrete safety factor of 1.5, at the ends of all longitudinal walls of reinforced concrete, applied between the nodes of the top level and the base. It also braces the lower ends of the tension tendons to the foundation soil using expandable anchorage mechanisms, which are activated from the foundation soil level, prior to the construction erection works, using hydraulic tensioners, which apply pulling intensities to excite the mechanisms and open them, which are twice the axial calculation loads.

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