What are the major impacts of the 1997 UBC on earthquake design, and how do they impact building layout and related issues? All of the code changes in the area of earthquake design originate in ...

An animated video that emerged online and was first spotted by Gizmodo shows various earthquake-proof bed designs that are scarier than an earthquake itself. The designs appear to be related to a ...

Facing strict constraints on time, labor, and space, the data center’s owners turned to Frost Engineering & Consulting to ...

Crews are finishing up digging a 125-foot hole to install a test foundation that they'll use to test the earthquake-resistant ...

Part of the reason behind the bridge’s configuration was to serve as a beacon to county residents in the event of a crisis like a major earthquake. “I supported the inverted Y design because ...

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Performance and functionality. It took two twentieth-century earthquakes to bring performance-based design front-and-center. Its origins date back to the mid-eighteenth-century BC when ...

Explore how Nonlinear Response History Analysis serves as a powerful tool to enhance and innovate seismic design practices in this insightful talk.

The new bridge will be earthquake-ready, so crews are digging a 10-foot-wide, 125-foot-deep hole to see how concrete supports react during a simulated seismic event.