[papercreters] Re: earthquakes & papercrete

--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, JUDITH WILLIAMS <williams_judith@...> wrote:
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> The wire mesh on the inside and outside of walls seems like the best reinforcement for papercrete. I often try to visualize what would happen to a papercrete building in an earthquake.
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This subject got me to thinking and I GOOGLED adobe and earthquake.
This website has a PDF download worth looking at. Mentally sub papercrete for adobe.

http://www.sheltercentre.org/library/Building+Hygienic+and+EarthquakeResistant+Adobe+Houses+Using+Geomesh+Reinforcement

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