Sentences with phrase «safety during an earthquake»

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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.

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.

One of the key goals is to study how the different seismic safety systems interact with each other during realistic earthquake simulations.

In the current tests of the two - story, 22 - foot - tall structure, the researchers are studying the behavior of full - scale seismic safety systems made from advanced wood materials — including rocking walls, which can rock during a temblor and then re-center back by itself, and a mass timber floor designed to withstand strong earthquakes.

Disaster Movie follows the comic misadventures of a group of ridiculously attractive twenty - somethings during one fateful night as they try to make their way to safety while every known natural disaster and catastrophic event - asteroids, twisters, earthquakes, the works — hits the city and their path as they try to solve a series of

Disaster Movie follows the comic misadventures of a group of ridiculously attractive twenty - somethings during one fateful night as they try to make their way to safety while every known natural disaster and catastrophic event - asteroids, twisters, earthquakes, the works — hits the city and their path as they try to solve a series of mysteries to end the rampant destruction.

Fred Turner, Consulting Structural Engineer for many years with the California Seismic Safety Commission summarizes the hazards in these single rooms, perched on top of concrete or steel supports: «i) If unattached classrooms move relative to their stair systems (which can be structurally separated from the classroom) doors that open outward can be prevented from opening by creation of an offset, gap or obstruction that forms between the classrooms and the stairs during the earthquake, potentially obstructing egress.

• Ensuring project safety rules and regulations are followed during the execution of work • Designing, constructing, remodeling retrofitting and repairing interior and exterior wooden structures • Securing furniture and fixtures for earthquake preparedness • Using power tools such as nail guns, circular saws and sanders