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A 40-second test in Japan on the world’s largest shake table demonstrated for the first time that wood-framed mid-rise buildings can be built to withstand major earthquakes, say researchers. The ...

A 10-story mass timber “rocking” frame, designed to be resilient enough to withstand powerful earthquakes with little or no structural damage, proved its worth May 9 during seismic simulations at the ...

The world's largest earthquake-simulation shake table in Miki City, Japan played a large role in helping scientists design buildings that could withstand large earthquakes. The devastating earthquake ...

Keywords: Earthquake engineering, model-in-the-loop simulation, shake-table control, impedance matching, control-structure interaction, real-time feedback Seismic isolation Abstract: Model-in-the-loop ...

On May 9, a 10-story tower was deliberately shaken with forces equal to a magnitude 6.7 earthquake, followed, minutes later, by the equivalent of a 7.7 quake. Designed by Portland, Oregon– and Los ...

Every year the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) hosts a conference where members of industry, students, and faculty gather to learn about advancements in the research of Earthquake ...