Compression ring horizontal bracing system for building structures
OwnerCharles K. Fonginventor
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Abstract
This invention provides a construction method having at least one compression ring and its bracing and reinforcing tension plane installed at a targeted floor level, where the compression ring and the tension plane form a structural bracing system to protect a new building or a existing building from an external horizontal impact.
Claims11
A method for strengthening a building structure to resist horizontal impact, where the method comprising the steps of:
- installing at least one compression ring at a targeted story of the building;
- and
- constructing at lease one tension plane to brace and reinforce the compression ring at the targeted floor level.
The method as claimed in claim 3, where installing at least one tension ring is to install the tension ring around an elevator or an escape stairway and to provide the continuity of the tension plane for the block-out.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.