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HTTP:: Analyzing Tremors 039 Impact on Buildings
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Earthquakes usually take only a few seconds to bring down even the most solid buildings, if their epicenter is close enough to the structures. Knowing precisely what is happening in the first seconds when a tremor hits, as far as the structural integrity of the building goes, is therefore a huge goal for engineers and architects. This could help them work together so that, in the future, the number of victims that fall prey to sudden earthquakes is reduced to a minimum. Testing the effect of earthquakes in real-life situations, such as actually building a several-story construction on a mobile plate, and beginning to shake it, is in most cases a prohibitively expensive endeavor, which cannot be supported by anyone. Such was the case of a collaboration of American and Japanese researchers, from the University of Buffalo and the Kyoto University, which tried out a hybrid approach at studying tremors and buildings. “One of the key issues in earthquake engineering is how much!
damage structures can sustain before collapsing so people can safely evacuate. We don't really know the answer because testing buildings to collapse is so difficult. With this hybrid approach, it appears that we have a safe, economic way to test realistic buildings at large scales to collapse,” UB As...
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