Tara Hutchinson, a professor in the UC San Diego Department of Structural Engineering, is the lead researcher on a series of tests on a 10-story, cold-formed steel-framed building at the UC San Diego ...

Civil engineering professor Moussa Leblouba from the University of Sharjah in the UAE has developed a simple device designed ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Members of the news media are invited to the University at Buffalo North Campus on Friday, June 7, for a series of earthquake tests. Researchers will use a shake table – a large ...

Drivers on Interstate 15 may have noticed smoke near Pomerado Road this morning. KPBS education reporter Katie Anastas says it was part of a UC San Diego study on how fire spreads through ...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has taken over the Little Rock Housing Authority, also known as the Metropolitan Housing Alliance (MH Pine Bluff City Council tables rental ...

Keywords: Earthquake engineering, seismic isolation, deformable rolling bearings, low-cost isolation for lightweight structures, triaxial shake table testing, and isolator behavior modeling. Abstract: ...

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 ...

Assessing how bridges and other critical infrastructure will perform during earthquakes is a central problem in earthquake engineering. That problem becomes even harder near active faults, where ...

By Will Dunham May 21 (Reuters) - If ever there were a structure built to stand the test of time, it surely would be the ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt has survived more than 4,500 years. Earthquakes have repeatedly shaken the region, ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza has withstood thousands of years of wars, erosion, and shifting sands, but its ultimate test has ...