I think this is why they call it the monsoon season... I went on a site survey of a building that is being retrofited with base isolators and carbon fiber. The carbon fiber is used on the floor to make it a part of the lateral load system and then anchored to the masonry walls with carbon fiber anchors. It was very interesting as I had not heard of this being done before and it seems to be very logical. The building is old, historic and very beautiful so traditional lateral braces couldn't be used. The walls were brick and so very weak in an earthquake. Carbon fibers in a diagonal grid were spread on the floor with resin and then 40cm fibers were placed with resin in 20 cm holes drilled in the structural walls around the perimeter, the other 20 cm of fiber was fanned out on the floor and resined down. Very interesting. I have so much work and so little time left. We have another site survey on Wed, Thurs the lab group has a baseball tournament and Friday is the symposium. Ahhh... they'll be no siteseeing this weekend! I will take time out to go to Kabuki theater on Sat. That should be awesome.
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