The office swayed and jolted from side-to-side, the floor heaved upwards as the “earthquake” shook from below sending books off shelves, and pictures off the walls in the inaugural run of the new ...

Earthquakes and other stressors on buildings pose a threat to their structural integrity that endangers human life. It is effective to be able to calculate the behavior of buildings and test with ...

Three 14- by 14-foot, 27-ton table platens were lifted and placed onto their base mats in the University of Nevada, Reno's new Earthquake Engineering Laboratory as the installation of equipment in the ...

Keywords: Earthquake Resistant Design, Shaking Table Tests, Gable Frame Structures, Steel Frames, Stress Tests, and Seismic Design. Abstract: Behavior of a 1/5 scale gable frame structure composed of ...

For earthquake simulations, one of the services we provide are shake tables. Currently, there are two, relocatable, 7.0m x 7.0m platforms with six-degrees of freedom. Each table is capable of 50 tons ...

In 2008, I produced a QUEST TV feature story called, "Hayward Fault: Predictable Peril" (UPDATED: The Hayward Fault: Overdue for Disaster). The story focused on the earthquake fault that runs from San ...