Wednesday, 2 April 2014

Addition in Chapter 3

After going through my iBook a couple of times I thought that chapter 3 within the 'buildings that withstand earthquakes' could use a little bit more love, as it only had one page and I felt like I could cover a bit more on this section, so i decided to add more content to this section within this chapter.







Fig 1 - Fig 2 - Chapter 3 Section 3 - Buildings that withstand earthquakes 


As you can see in Fig 2 there isn't much on buildings that withstand earthquakes section and I felt like there could be more done. One of my ideas was using created graphics that display some of the assets of ways in which buildings can be safe with 'isolation bearings' and then compare it to earthquakes without them. Below is what I created.



Fig 3 - Fig 4 Chapter 3 Section 3 - Additional pages added

Within Fig 3 it displays a diagram of a graphic of a building and has arrows that point out certain aspects of the building to indicate what is being observed and the main focus of the diagram. This diagram points out that it uses 'isolation bearings' which are used underneath the building and are used to strengthen the buildings structure to make it less effected by earthquakes. 

In the next page in Fig 4 It presents two examples one with and one without isolation buildings and presents what happens when an earthquake occurs, for example when an earthquake occurs on the buildings of the left of the page the buildings slightly sway left to right, however with buildings that don't use earthquake protection like isolation bearings it can cause more stressful movements within the buildings structure and can even cause it to topple over and fall apart, depending on the magnitude of the earthquake.

I feel like this illustrations are simple but effective and highlight the reasons why earthquake protection for building structures is important, especially in places where they are more common and have higher magnitudes, as it could help save costs, people's lives and less destruction when earthquakes do occur, especially in big cities.

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