Seismic Zones of India: Choosing Expansion Joints for Zone III, IV and V
From the Himalayan belt to Kutch, most of India sits in seismic Zones III, IV and V — and zone classification should directly drive expansion joint selecti
From the Himalayan belt to Kutch, most of India sits in seismic Zones III, IV and V — and zone classification should directly drive expansion joint selecti
Joints don’t face one kind of movement — they face three at once. Thermal, seismic and wind-induced movement each stress an expansion joint differently.
Twin towers joined at a podium move independently every single day. In high-rise residential projects, the expansion joint is what lets them do it without