Keywords: Shaking Table Tests, Lightly Reinforced Structures, Joint Confinement, Gravity Load Design, Beam Reinforcement, Reinforced Concrete Structures, Failure Mechanisms, Existing Buildings, ...

Structural engineers at UC San Diego were waiting to see how a tall building, made from recycled steel, would react in a 6.9 magnitude earthquake. The earthquake shake table was ready to go as the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

It takes just seconds for tall buildings to collapse during earthquakes. Knowing what's happening in those seconds can help engineers design buildings that are less prone to sustaining that kind of ...

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 ...

The world's largest outdoor earthquake simulator, operated by structural engineers at the University of California San Diego, has received a $16.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to ...

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 ...