It was a significant accomplishment, challenging conventional approaches to the design and construction of earthquake-resistant structures. And not just earthquake-resistant ones, points out Dr. Lin.

Learn about what makes buildings and structures withstand earthquakes with marshmallows and spaghetti. Every Monday, Kern ...

The next step is bringing the innovation to commercialization. Engineers develop unbelievable new method for making skyscrapers earthquake-proof: 'The technology works' first appeared on The Cool Down ...

University of California - San Diego. "Virtual Research On Earthquake Resistant Structures." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 12 April 2007. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2007 / 04 / 070411135030 ...

Student Team Designs Earthquake Resistant Buildings for Competition,Wins Third Prize. By Arnav Ghosh. May 10, 2016 8:06 ... A project team at Cornell aims to help with that.

University of Texas researchers have been awarded a $13.7 million federal grant to develop a software platform and other cyber tools to help engineers construct buildings, levees, bridges ...

If you see smoke from the freeway, don’t worry. The blaze on UC San Diego’s earthquake shake table aims to help make ...

Then there’s the Quake Column, an earthquake-resistant structure built from interlocking 3D-printed sand blocks.Inspired by ancient Incan construction, the angular blocks are designed to shift ...

The FINANCIAL -- Devastating earthquakes are a global phenomenon, as anyone in Nepal, Japan, or Indonesia can tell you. The ...

OFIS Architecture's All-Seasons Tent Tower is an earthquake-proof complex that features two terraced, connected cylindrical towers.