The brilliant ancient civilization figured out how to make seismically stable structures using stones that fit together like Legos. Now it’s time to learn from the past. Over 500 years ago, when Incan ...

How do engineers prepare buildings to withstand earthquakes? According to experts in Spain, one approach to this problem is to consider a building as you would a living being. How do engineers prepare ...

Recent earthquake damage has exposed the vulnerability of existing structures to strong ground movement. Researchers are now analyzing shape-memory alloys for their potential use in constructing ...

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the College of Engineering, Qatar University (QU), organised the first competition of its kind for 'Earthquake-Resistant Structures.' The ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency alerted citizens about a possible 'megaquake' over 8 in magnitude within the next 70 years, causing the Prime Minister to cancel his Asia trip. Japan employs advanced ...

ALTHOUGH it might appear that such a subject has little direct application in Great Britain, it will be found that the problem treated in this work is one of vibration in structures and, as such, is ...

We are sharing this with you in response to the Japan earthquake earlier today. Building earthquake resistant structures is an ongoing challenge and Japan is continually designing for and sensitive to ...