Building codes will be changing soon, now that a study at UC San Diego found a common steel building column won’t withstand the stress of a strong earthquake. KPBS Science and technology reporter ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — “We are creating our own earthquake,” Tara Hutchinson, a professor of structural engineering at UCSD said. UC San Diego’s Englekirk Structural Engineering Center is home to ...

Researchers from six universities are studying how a timber building will withstand an earthquake by testing its resiliency on a shake table at the University of California San Diego. Image courtesy ...

Keywords: Lightly Reinforced Concrete Buildings, Shaking Table Tests, Detailing, Reinforcement, Eastern United States, Column Reinforcement Ratio, Joint Confinement, Lap Splices, and Earthquake ...

The tallest steel-framed building ever tested on an earthquake simulator started moving slowly, swaying and twisting. The 10-story, 100-foot structure was experiencing simulations of real earthquakes, ...

A team of engineers is testing a six-story, lightweight steel-frame building on the world’s largest outdoor seismic shake table this month at the University of California, San Diego. The goal is to ...

Keywords: Earthquake engineering, model-in-the-loop simulation, shake-table control, impedance matching, control-structure interaction, real-time feedback Seismic isolation Abstract: Model-in-the-loop ...

Colorado State University along with Simpson Strong-Tie and other partners successfully led the world’s largest earthquake shake table test in Japan yesterday, proving that midrise wood-frame ...

What happens when you put a fully equipped five-story building, which includes an intensive care unit, a surgery suite, piping and air conditioning, fire barriers and even a working elevator, through ...

Structural dynamics testing offers capabilities for quasi-static and dynamic testing of small- and large-scale structural components and systems (e.g., large-scale concrete columns and frames) under ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- It takes just seconds for tall buildings to collapse during powerful earthquakes. Knowing precisely what's happening in those seconds can help engineers design buildings that are less ...

New York City's brick houses would fall apart if an earthquake the size of the one that struck in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2011 hit near the metropolis, a recent earthquake simulation found. The ...