How Building Height Rewrites Earthquake Risk in Pilotis Towers
New simulations show that the seismic danger of open ground-floor pilotis buildings depends strongly on building height and nonlinear dynamic ...
Tag: Earthquake engineering
Simple New Method Aims to Make Earthquake-Resistant Building Design Faster and Safer
Researchers have validated a simplified preliminary seismic design procedure for low- to medium-rise reinforced concrete buildings that meets modern performance ...
Gravity Loads Quietly Steal Seismic Strength From Composite Steel Floor Decks
Full-scale cyclic tests and validated finite element simulations show that sustained gravity loading cuts the in-plane seismic capacity of composite ...
Hybrid Buildings Emerge as Hidden Seismic Risk After 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes
A new empirical study of 169 low-rise hybrid buildings damaged in the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake sequence shows these mixed concrete-and-masonry ...
Replaceable Fuses and Steel Shear Tabs Could Make Precast Buildings Earthquake-Resilient
Researchers have developed validated design criteria for steel shear tabs in precast concrete connections that pair with replaceable buckling-restrained brace ...
New Index Reveals Which Failure Mechanism Governs Retrofitted Concrete Frames in Quakes
Researchers at Istanbul Technical University have developed a Mechanism Evolution Index that identifies whether ductile, shear, or connection failure governs ...
Scientists Pinpoint the Earthquake Signals That Best Predict Damage to Fault-Crossing Railway Bridges
A new framework identifies peak spectral displacement and velocity measures as the most reliable predictors of damage in railway bridges ...
Hybrid graph surrogate model predicts seismic response of steel building portfolios
When an earthquake strikes a city, the question that keeps engineers and emergency planners awake at night is not whether ...
Soil-structure interaction effects on Fukushima reactor floor acceleration assessed
When the magnitude 9.1 Tohoku earthquake struck off the coast of Japan on March 11, 2011, the instruments embedded deep ...
New method quantifies floor acceleration amplification using instrumented buildings
When earthquakes strike, engineers worry most about a building's frame staying upright — but some of the costliest damage often ...
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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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