POSSIBILITIES TO PREVENT DISASTERS Sample Clauses

POSSIBILITIES TO PREVENT DISASTERS. Every year insurance companies all over the world pay damages of a huge extent. They would be able to collect data of all the damages and to transmit the experiences to the interested engineers and architects. This happens very seldom, but it could be the decisive step to a disaster-resilient strategy. Since there is no move in this direction, some typical arguments for damages and possible preventions will be discussed. The whole spectrum of essential causes, even such beyond wind storms, will be discussed. Roofs Why are roofs damaged most of all? Causes include larger wind velocity with increasing height over ground, vortex shedding at sharp comers and cantilevering roofs, small roof weight, insufficient anchoring of the roof to the building, poor fixing of the to the roof structure and inexistent maintenance of roof elements such as chimneys or antennas. Roof damage is especially annoying because the rain destroys the insulation and increases the total damage considerably. The parts loosened from the roof are transported by the wind. They hit other buildings. Sometimes the stability of the whole building is threatened if the roof is blown off. Measures against these kinds of damage can be derived from what has been said
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