Improved seismic resilience against life-safety hazard of masonry buildings

该项目旨在开发一种具有成本效益的技术，以减轻许多易受地震冲击的非增强砖砌体护墙和墙壁所带来的安全风险。每个澳大利亚城市都有许多街道两旁排列着旧的未加固的砖石建筑（现在的咖啡馆、酒吧、精品店），这些建筑以护墙为特色。该项目将减少护墙倒塌的可能性，从而减少地震中的死亡人数，从而为社会带来好处。业主和工程师将从该项目提供的设计指导中受益，这将导致一套经过全面测试和低成本的改造技术。

This project aims to develop a cost-effective technique to mitigate the safety risk posed by the many unreinforced brick masonry parapets and walls which are vulnerable to seismic shock. Every Australian city has many streets lined with older unreinforced brick masonry buildings (now cafes, pubs, boutique shops) which feature parapets. The project will provide benefits to society by reducing the potential for parapet collapse and therefore reduce the total number of fatalities in an earthquake. Building owners and engineers will be benefit from the design guidance provided by this project, which will lead to a suite of fully-tested and low-cost retrofit techniques.