New Earthquake Intensity Measure Slashes Super-Tall Building Analysis Costs
Researchers have developed a spectral-acceleration intensity measure that predicts peak floor acceleration and velocity demands in super-tall buildings, cutting the ...
Tag: Earthquake engineering
Wooden Panels With Friction Dampers Triple Earthquake Energy Dissipation in Aging Concrete Frames
Full-scale laboratory tests show that an external retrofit combining cross-laminated timber panels with redesigned friction dampers boosts the strength of ...
When Earthquakes Meet Slow Landslides: How Hidden Ground Movement Threatens Bridge Piers
A new numerical study shows that slow-moving landslides fundamentally alter the seismic response of pile-supported bridge piers, underscoring the need ...
AI Learns to Predict How Friction Dampers Shield Buildings from Earthquakes
A new machine learning framework trained on roughly 434,000 nonlinear earthquake simulations reveals that taller steel buildings need proportionally fewer ...
Earthquake Records Alone Can Now Reveal the Soil Beneath Seismic Stations
A new inversion technique reconstructs shear-wave velocity profiles beneath seismic stations from single-station earthquake records alone, achieving Vs30 estimates within ...
New Model Predicts How Ultra-Tough Concrete Walls Survive Earthquakes
Researchers have developed a strut-and-tie model that accurately predicts the shear strength of squat shear walls locally reinforced with ultra-high ...
Neural Network Learns to Predict Earthquake Shaking Across the Frequency Spectrum
Researchers trained a multi-output artificial neural network on more than 50,000 earthquake recordings from the NGA-West3 database to predict the ...
Basalt Fiber Wraps Give Aging Concrete Columns a Seismic Second Life
Researchers in South Korea show that wrapping reinforced concrete columns with basalt fiber-reinforced polymer composites can multiply their strength, ductility, ...
New Deformation-Based Rule Lets Masonry Buildings Share Seismic Loads Safely
Researchers at the University of Pavia and EUCENTRE have developed a deformation-based criterion, validated by over a thousand nonlinear dynamic ...
Hybrid Energy Dissipation System Shields Bridges Built Across Active Faults
Researchers have developed a hybrid system combining rocking self-centering piers and shape memory alloy-enhanced friction pendulum bearings that significantly reduces ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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