Seismic behavior of assam type wooden houses

Abstract

Traditional Assam type wooden houses are popular housing systems in the seismically active north eastern Himalayan region of India These have performed exceptionally well during the past several earthquakes on contrary to RC structures Apart from its high seismic resilience the housing system has a number of features that are uniquely different from other traditional wooden houses e g its construction methodology timber framing system special type of connection between framing members...