It took 4 tries, but engineers at the Englekirk Structural Engineering Center at UC San Diego lastly brought downwards at four-story construction they had been testing since July on the world's largest outdoor milkshake table. Led past times John van de Lindt, a professor of Colorado State University, they were trying to empathise how to brand structures amongst woods frames together with first-floor garages ameliorate equipped to withstand earthquakes.
Results together with then far were positive, van de Lindt told UT San Diego:
"We learned that these buildings tin deform quite a chip earlier they collapse; that's a positive. And the footing has to deed a lot."
Saturday, Aug. 17, van de Lindt together with colleagues had removed the diverse retrofits that they had been testing for near a month. Their finish was to encounter how far they would select to force the edifice earlier it collapsed. It turned out to live quite a bit.
Researchers used the Englekirk Center's milkshake tabular array to copy the 1992 Cape Mendocino earthquake, a 7.2 magnitude temblor, the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, a 6.9 shaker also known every bit the World Series earthquake, together with lastly the Superstition Hills earthquake, a 6.7 temblor that caused $3 1000000 inwards harm inwards Imperial County inwards 1987. That's when the identify vicious down.
"The start flooring but pancaked," van de Lindt told UT San Diego.
In add-on to UT San Diego, the exam was also covered by:
Gizmodo
10News, San Diego
CBS News 8, San Diego
together with other local TV stations.
Learn to a greater extent than near the inquiry projection here.
More information near the Englekirk Center here.
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