I read here and there trying to understand the mechanism that throws buildings into the earthquake.
Civil engineers, professors of earthquake engineering, regulations, trying to make buildings invulnerable to earthquake.
And yet, despite all the science, when there is a big nearby earthquake the structures are destroyed and we are flattened.
Things to me are simple. Too simple. But they don't want to listen. I challenge any engineer who wants any professor to a dialogue about what I say below. I'll say them simply so that even someone who is not an expert can understand them.
Let's take 30 CDs placed on top of each other on a table.
If we move the table abruptly the 30 CDs will slide one on top of the other and the pile of CDs will be shattered.
If on these 30 CDs we place toothpicks on them for legs, the column of 30 CDs will become much taller, and with a slight shake of the table it will collapse more easily than before.
If we now replace the CDs with the building plates and the toothpicks with the columns, we will have a 30-storey building.
We all now understand the simple mechanism that brings down the stack of 30 CDs and the 30-story apartment building.
Action - reaction, or acceleration - inertia.
This is the problem.
What is the solution?
The solution is so simple to save us from the earthquake and all the officials pretend not to understand when I tell them.
Now why they don't listen, don't answer, or pretend not to understand ask them yourself.
They do not answer me.
The solution is this.
If inside the hole of the 30 CD stack we nail a 45 nail into the table, then move the table as much as you want, the 30 CDs will stay on top of each other. That's the solution to the earthquake.
The nailed nail on the table stopped the inertia of the 30 CDs.
I did the same thing.
I bolted the lift shaft of the structure to the ground instead of nailing the nail to the table and checked the inelastic deformation of the structure in the rocking of the earthquake.
What is the difference with today's constructions? In the method I propose the soil participates by taking up the inertia of the structure and dissipating it into the soil before breaking the beams.