Research on the application of seismic isolation methods will lead to better protection of buildings, infrastructure, and sensitive equipment subjected to dynamic loads caused by seismic activity. The ...

Howard University professor Claudia Marin-Artieda at the NEES at Buffalo laboratory with her research team and the "Yahoo frame." With 40 servers installed, the frame was shaken with servers in ...

It is not surprising that architects in the earthquake-prone San Francisco Bay Area incorporate robust and sophisticated seismic technologies into their buildings. Some of the earthquake-resisting ...

"Our purpose is to measure strong shaking, building response" and to verify performance-based seismic designs, says Tony Shakal, manager of CSMIP, which has 235 buildings instrumented. "Use of ...

Keywords: Earthquake engineering, Seismic isolation, ASCE/SEI 7, Collapse performance, Risk assessment, Probabilistic analysis Abstract: This report presents an analytical study of the seismic ...

NZ researchers say that waste tires could be reused as seismic isolation for medium-rise buildings. As in most nations formed near fault lines, earthquakes are seen as a part of life in New Zealand, ...

Among the numerous cavernous buildings at the former Navy shipyard on Vallejo’s Mare Island is the home of Earthquake Protection Systems. For more than a quarter century, it has been manufacturing ...

The proliferation of data center construction faces many challenges. Power, cooling, security and space are just some of the variables that can make positioning and building a new data center ...

The world's largest seismically isolated building, the new international terminal at Istanbul's Sabiha Gökçen Airport, is now complete and open for business. Stretching across more than 2 million ...

(TNS) -- Scientists say the next major earthquake in Northern California will emanate from the Hayward Fault, and it’s not a matter of “if” but “when,” according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Many ...

The proliferation of data center construction faces many challenges. Power, cooling, security and space are just some of the variables that can make positioning and building a new data center ...