Sentences with phrase «seismic safety systems»

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.

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

While some tall wood buildings have been constructed in recent years, they have either been built in areas thought to be seismically inactive or they have been constructed with seismic safety systems made from non-wood-materials such as concrete and steel.

During the July 14 test, the building and its seismic safety systems seemed to do well.

«It's exciting to see our earthquake shake table facility being used to design, test and validate resilient seismic safety systems made from innovative, renewable materials,» said UC San Diego structural engineering professor Joel Conte, who is the principal investigator on the NHERI NSF grant that funds the shake table operations.

Not exact matches

As a result of changes to the seismic safety assessment system, two active faults below the Monju site that were previously denied have now been recognized.

The project also will replace the fire / life / safety systems located in the Mt. Baker tunnels connecting to the I - 90 Floating Bridge, as well as seismic retrofits that will improve the earthquake resistance of the floating bridge.

For the work's presentation at SFMOMA, Kubisch compiled a sequence of recordings of magnetic fields from various sites, including a security room in the basement of the museum; nearby locations such as Yerba Buena Gardens, a parking garage on Natoma Street, and Epicenter, a city - run space devoted to seismic safety; the Hoover Dam in Nevada; a power plant in Finland; server rooms in Austria, Germany, and Hong Kong; a Louis Vuitton store in Paris; and the Laboratory for Antiquated Video Systems at ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany.

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.