Cracks wherever material change was observed 6. De-lamination of plaster 7. This happens due to very high suctions and pressure exerted by high velocity winds Types of damamges Roof sheets or tile fly off. Joints and connections are broken. Anchorage of roof gets broken and whole roofs fly off.
Frames collapse due to jointing failures.
Even entire timber houses are lifted off. Asymmetrical volumes both in plan and elevation 2. Let us briefly go through some case studies to understand the relevance of our traditional knowledge related to disaster resistance. Also we should try and see how they can lead us to try and evolve innovative concepts for disaster resistant structures.