A 10-story building made from cold-formed steel held up to a generated earthquake by the earthquake shake table at UC San ...

Research at the shake table is far from complete. Right now, the site is buzzing with activity as engineers get ready to put to the test a 10-story cold-formed steel building this summer.

Buildings made of mass timber – layers of wood bonded together – are gaining popularity as greener and faster alternatives to concrete and steel structures. With new building codes recently updated to ...

A "shake table" using steel beams and hydraulics to mimic seismic activity is receiving its biggest experiment yet: a 10-story wooden building Search for: Science ...

May 9 shake table tests at UC San Diego included simulations of magnitude-6.7 and magnitude-7.7 quakes. Courtesy Colorado School of Mines, UC San Diego, NEHRI TallWood Project ...

Research conducted by Civil Engineering Professor Keri Ryan and her team last May is advancing the relatively new field of non-structural earthquake engineering. The team’s work was part of a ...

The UC San Diego shake table, located on an industrial lot off Pomerado Road, is the only outdoor facility of its kind in the ...

UCSD's Englekirk Structural Engineering Center is testing a 10-story cold steel-form structure on the world's largest shake table to gather data on how it would perform during an earthquake and ...

The shake table can also accelerate to at least 1g–the amount of gravity we experience on Earth when we fall. These motions can in turn accelerate the top of a 10-story building to as much as 3g.

The tallest primarily mass-timber structure to be tested for seismic resilience on an earthquake shaking table is located at the UC San Diego Englekirk Structural Engineering Center. Photo courtesy ...

A 10-story tower mostly made of wood withstood a simulated 7.7 earthquake on UC San Diego’s outdoor shake table Tuesday, underscoring a belief by some engineers that such structures could safely ...