Expected Seismic Performance Of Buildings Located In Waknaghat And Kandaghat Area Of Solan, District

The Himalayan belt of India lies near the fault separating Indo-Australian and Eurasian plate. It is but natural that this area is seismically active and lies in zone IV. Despite this fact, most of non-engineered buildings in Himachal Pradesh have poor configurations and construction quality. In this paper, an effort is made to study structural irregularities and construction defects of buildings situated in Waknaghat and Kandaghat (district Solan, HP). Some of the factors which were included in the survey are : offsets, cantilever slab loaded above, setbacks, soft storey, unequal heights of the column , honeycombing, cantilevered slabs loaded above, open ground storey etc. Along with above mentioned defects, other factors like segregation, exposed bars, verticality of columns, poor bricks quality were also acknowledged. An effort has also been made to suggest some remedies for the above mentioned irregularities and defects.