Sentences with phrase «buildings during earthquakes»

Whether it's monitoring the integrity of buildings during earthquakes or airplane wings during flight, so - called strain sensors are getting more and more important for our safety.

Lateral shaking is the force that can cause the most damage to a building during an earthquake.

What's more, most of the building materials had to be lightweight to reduce horizontal momentum caused by the weight of the building during an earthquake.

Not exact matches

That?s why it?s like trying to build a house during an earthquake.?

The issue arose last week at a meeting between Westinghouse and NRC staff that included issues of emergency stresses on the reactor shield building, such as during an earthquake, said NRC spokesman Scott Burnell.

During 2011's deadly onslaught of earthquakes, floods and tornadoes, countless buildings had to be evacuated while workers checked to make sure they were stable.

To ensure safety in ever taller buildings, the potential impacts of uncontrolled fire need to be explicitly considered during the structural design process with the same care as earthquakes and wind.

If high - rise buildings were designed more like ships, would they float upright during an earthquake?

Highly destructive earthquakes caused by subduction occur because of excessive friction that develops during the sliding process, resulting in a build - up of stress.

«Designing buildings that are safe even during large earthquakes is hugely important.

This translates into considerably less tension in the partition walls, meaning correspondingly less tension is transferred to the building frame during earthquakes.

Researchers are particularly interested in a system that allows the building to rock in response to an earthquake and on how the walls and floors interact during shaking.

The goal of the tests is to gather enough data to design wood buildings as tall as 20 stories that do not suffer significant damage during large earthquakes.

It is the second version of the test building that in August will face the strongest seismic forces, as recorded during the Northridge earthquake.

«We believe that these data will help us understand the entire earthquake process — from the phase that tension builds up to the actual rupture, and also during the post-seismic phase.»

Any dam being built during this government - funded boom, as well as those already completed, must be able to withstand the strong ground shaking of an extreme earthquake, says Martin Wieland of the International Commission on Large Dams, a group of engineers that makes recommendations for structural standards.

Japan started to build its EEW system after the 1995 Kobe earthquake and performed well during the 2011 magnitude 9 Tohoku - Oki earthquake.

Most of the people that died during these earthquakes were killed because of such poorly constructed buildings.

Asimaki notes that Los Angeles is also built atop sedimentary deposits and is surrounded by hills and mountain ranges that would also be prone to this type of increased shaking intensity during a major earthquake.

Using data from the GPS stations, an accelerometer that measures ground motion in Kathmandu, data from seismological stations around the world, and radar images collected by orbiting satellites, an international team of scientists led by Caltech has pieced together the first complete account of what physically happened during the Gorkha earthquake — a picture that explains how the large earthquake wound up leaving the majority of low - story buildings unscathed while devastating some treasured taller structures.

«One may figuratively compare resonances within the nucleus to what happens during an earthquake, where all buildings vibrate in a more or less consistent rhythm, just like neutrons in a giant resonance.

While its residents have escaped serious injury, many of its historic buildings suffered damage during a magnitude 5.0 earthquake that struck in November 2016, with an epicenter less than two miles west of town.

Depending on where you live in the Cascadia region, an earthquake may cause ground shaking, landslides, soil liquefaction (when soil liquefies during shaking), tsunamis, fires, hazardous material spills and building damage.

The new study «gives us a unique opportunity to improve our knowledge of the behavior of soil deposits during earthquakes, especially in urbanized areas,» write Leyton and colleagues, who say the data could be used to help improve building designs and codes.

Research developments have included development and implementation of performance - based design methods for seismic retrofit of low rise school buildings, novel techniques for regional estimation of damage to structures during earthquakes, detailed studies on nonlinear dynamic analysis of structures and methods to evaluate the dynamic characteristics of large Civil Engineering structures.

These buildings were damaged during an earthquake.

According to the Poso Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD), residents in several areas across the regency were injured by rubble of buildings that collapsed during the earthquake, which struck at around 10:35 p.m. local time.

Players race a car down a mountain to escape a roaring pyroclastic flow, dodge toppling buildings during a devastating earthquake and swim for their lives in a raging flood.

The building was slightly damaged during the 2011 Washington D.C. earthquake, and the construction process required reworking of the original infrastructure.

Among the most affecting works here are those that focus on the children killed in shoddily built schools during the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.

Ali Ağaoğlu, a billionaire developer in Turkey, caused a stir last year when he admitted that his family's company — and most other developers — routinely used inappropriate materials during a building boom in Istanbul in recent decades, creating enormous vulnerability because of the long history of powerful earthquakes in the sprawling city.

The wireless sensor would be powered by the vibrations during an earthquake and transmit information about stress to buildings.

• Successful evacuation of an entire building housing 985 people during the massive earthquake on 2008 • Introduction of quality risk assessment plans that considerably contributed to effective emergency response process development