A 10-story cold-formed steel-framed building will soon be put to the test on an earthquake simulator at the University of California San Diego to see how well it can withstand earthquakes. The UC San ...

The University of California, San Diego, has the largest outdoor shake table, or earthquake simulator, in the world - the only one capable of testing a 10-story building. The shake table can support ...

An new innovative building design reduces the impact of earthquakes by absorbing energy and protecting structures from severe ...

Drivers on Interstate 15 may have noticed smoke near Pomerado Road this morning. KPBS education reporter Katie Anastas says it was part of a UC San Diego study on how fire spreads through ...

When you hear about designers biomimicking butterflies, your first thought is probably about creating remote-controlled ...

A new steel cylinder filled with spheres could save buildings from earthquakes without electricity. Discover how this passive ...

Colorado State University along with Simpson Strong-Tie and other partners successfully led the world’s largest earthquake shake table test in Japan yesterday, proving that midrise wood-frame ...

IMPACTS OF NATURAL DISASTERS, NOT JUST DURING A PARTICULAR TIME OF YEAR, BUT YEAR ROUND. AND IT’S ENGINEERING MONTH OUT AT THE ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTER. WE WANT TO JOIN FIRST WARNING METEOROLOGIST ...

Zig-zagging around the glass-and-steel perimeter of the UC Berkeley Grimes Engineering Center, 36 thin metal rods could be what it takes to prevent the building’s total destruction. The rods are the ...

USC wrote in a statement to the Daily Trojan, that it had retrofitted Mudd Hall, Webb Tower, Phillips Hall and the Dramatic Arts Building since 2003. However, it acknowledged not all buildings were in ...

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 ...