A new study by researchers at Florida International University found Houston's hurricane-resistant skyscrapers are at greater ...
I learned about the risk of “soft story” buildings on the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 17, 1989. On that day, coastal Northern California was struck by the magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake.
Energy dissipation devices and vibration-control systems are increasingly being used for damage mitigation induced by ...
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It starts with better building policies that recognize future risks, but there are many other important steps.
Why do avalanches start to slide? And what happens inside the "pile of snow?" If you ask yourself these questions, you are ...
Leaking refrigerant in commercial and industrial HVAC and refrigeration systems can be difficult to trace and remedy, ...
When do amorphous solids lose their stability? Physicists at the University of Konstanz provide a model – with a box full of building blocks.
Japan has spent decades making its buildings more resilient to earthquakes. Similar changes could be difficult for the US to ...
Great Lakes Sound and Vibration (GLSV) was one of two Houghton County high-tech business working in the defense industry to ...
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Hyperquake CEO Colin Crotty, joined by Hyperquake’s Director of Stragetic Growth Marshall Thompson and Microsoft's Director ...
A suspected gas explosion in a Taiwan department store killed at least four people and injured 29, authorities said on ...
The Anderson transition is a phase transition that occurs in disordered systems, which entails a shift from a diffusive state ...
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