They are carrying out detailed assessments of why so many buildings collapsed.
The research is being carried out by theThe group includes experts from industry as well as leading academics and has carried out assessments of major earthquakes over the last three decades.
"It's important to get the full picture rather than just looking at a snapshot of a single asset or a single building," explains Professor Emily So, director of the Cambridge University Centre for Risk in the Built Environment, who is co-leader of the investigation. "And actually having that distribution, having that overview, is really key to what we can learn from this earthquake."Emily So is leading the EEFIT investigation with Yasemin Didem Aktas from UCL
of building regulations and construction practices in Turkey. Now the EEFIT team is carrying out technical evaluations of the performance of buildings in the area.Samples of concrete taken from a collapsed building in Adiyaman have revealed that it contains 6cm-long stones. They have come from a nearby river and have been used to bulk out the concrete.Image caption,And steel bars inside the concrete, which should reinforce it, have been found to be smooth instead of ridged.
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