Sentences with phrase «of unreinforced»

Wang described the impact of the next inevitable great quake on a host of schools in the state that were built of unreinforced masonry before the danger was recognized: «They'll snap like candy canes instead of bending like licorice sticks.»

Housing that consists of unreinforced masonry, particularly bricks, and any other heavy materials are more damage prone than engineered structures.

There was a very unnerving moment when she looked out the window at a wing of the building and noted, almost in passing, that it was built of unreinforced masonry and would be «history» when the city is struck by the earthquake that everyone knows is inevitable at some point in coming decades.

But it is impractical to retrofit the millions of unreinforced brick and stone houses across the region.

That's roughly twice the strength of the unreinforced basic material,» says Wagner.

Inspecting the aftermath of earthquakes throughout the developing world, I've seen a lot of collapsed buildings that were made of unreinforced masonry.

Not exact matches

Unreinforced brick masonry and stone buildings have been shown to be especially vulnerable to earthquakes,» said Erol Kalkan, a research structural engineer at USGS and guest editor of the SRL special issue, which features six technical reports that cover different aspects of the magnitude 6.0 South Napa earthquake on August 24, 2014.

Where else in the world are huge populations still at risk because they are living in cities where the primary building construction is unreinforced concrete and there is a likelihood of a major earthquake like this?

Methods: R6 / 2 CAG 240 (peak training at 11 weeks of age), zQ175 knock in (KI) HET (peak training at 27 weeks of age) and BAC HD (peak training at 48 weeks of age), as well as respective age - matched wild type (WT) control mice, were trained on the peak interval task (20 s interval) in which response rates during unreinforced peak trials were examined.

A recent NYIA press release concluded that New York's risk is high because of highly populated areas and an abundance of older unreinforced building materials.