Concept Earthquake Resistant Homes. Home/ earthquake engineering/principles of conceptual design of earthquake resistant structures. It is crucially important to take seismic hazards in seismic prone areas at early phase of conceptual design of earthquake resistant buildings.

Resist major earthquake without collapse, but possibly with some.

Structural as well as nonstructural damage. Ductility and deformability are interrelated concepts signifying the ability of a structure to sustain large deformations without collapse. Such buildings will be too robust and also too expensive. People must have protection from the elements, somewhere to grow as a family.