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 ...
Faced with the prospect of an extensive, and expensive, seismic safety retrofit for its 1960s-era downtown headquarters, L.A. County decided to vet an alternative: a far newer building, located just ...
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Researchers at the University of California, San Diego rocked and rattled a six-story steel frame building on a giant shake table Wednesday to see how the structure would withstand ...
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JONESBORO, AR -- When mother nature strikes no structure is truly stable, but there are some that can protect more than others. The Aramark building in Jonesboro was hit by a tornado on Tuesday. That ...
Modern steel buildings have long been considered among the most sturdy in the event of a major earthquake. But a model of a massive quake in Southern California has sparked debate among scientists and ...
When one thinks of steel what comes to mind is probably BHP, now BlueScope Steel, once an Australian icon in people's minds and hearts. Yet despite this iconic picture, the use of steel framing in ...