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(A) (B)
(C) (D)
FIG. 6.54 Using steel rods and welded steel mesh for enhancing seismic performance of adobe
walls in out-of-plane and in-plane directions. (A) In a dome-roof building. (B) In a damaged
dome-roof building after the 2005 Zarand earthquake; note the undamaged adjacent roof. (C) In
a flat-roof building after the 2005 Zarand earthquake. (D) In a cylindrical-roof building after the
2005 Zarand earthquake. (Photos taken by Mohammad Yekrangnia.)
FIG. 6.55 Spectral acceleration of the applied excitation during shaking table tests.
