University of Texas researchers have been awarded a $13.7 million federal grant to develop a software platform and other cyber tools to help engineers construct buildings, levees, bridges, highways ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Keywords: Nuclear power plants (NPP). Base isolation. Seismic isolation systems. ASCE 43-05. Damage. Design level earthquakes. Moats. Gravity loads. Seismic loads. Lateral displacement. Nonlinear ...

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 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 ...