With the method of designing, clamping the top-level nodes with the ground, I hope to divert the lateral inertial stresses of the earthquake into more powerful areas of the structure than those currently driven. These strong areas have the ability to absorb these tensions (preventing and relieving the relative displacements (ie drifts) and thus the tension that develops throughout the vector is limited) and returning them to the soil from where they came by subtracting in this way, great tensions and failures over the load-bearing structure of the building while ensuring a stronger bearing capacity of the foundation soil. With the appropriate design of wall dimensioning and their placement in suitable locations, we also prevent the torsional buckling that occurs in asymmetrical and metallic high-rise structures. Basically, when the roof is connected to the ground through the patent rope, it limits the displacements of the floors (ie the drifts) and thus the intensity, which develops throughout the carrier, is limited.

The axial loads N (kN) of the vertical tendons for the following cases of virtual residential buildings are provided in a table, in order to deal with a very strong earthquake: A. Case Design of a building 10.00m × 10.00m, square with nine (9) columns on a 5.00m grid and eight (8) tendons (see Figs A1, A2). A.1 Ground height 3.50m A.2 Two-storey, total height 7.00m A.3 Three-storey, total height 10.50m A.4 Four-storey, total height 14.00m A.5 Five-storey, total height 17.50m A.6 Ex-storey, total height 21.00m

B. Case Plan of a building 20.00m × 20.00m, square with twenty-five (25) columns on a 5.00m canvas and twenty-four (24) tendons (see Figures B1, B2). B.1 Ground floor height 3.50m B.2 Two-storey, total height 7.00m B.3 Three-storey, total height 10.50m B.4 Four-storey, total height 14.00m B.5 Five-storey, total height 17,50m B.6 Four-storey, total height 21.00m

Depending on the quality of the steel that will be used is the cross section of the tendon. The forces and cross-sections correspond to the leakage state of the steel (without any safety factor). These items are for a start. It remains the control with real soil elements.

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