Sentences with phrase «shake tables at»

T - Labs also provided phones that Kong tested on shake tables at UC Berkeley, which realistically simulate the vibrations from large quakes such as the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake south of San Francisco.

On July 27 they tested their CLT design on the big shake table at the UC San Diego.

Not exact matches

FAIR SHAKE The word in Las Vegas last week was that the «short, chubby man from Connecticut» who made 50 straight passes at a Dunes crap table not long ago (SCORECARD, Oct. 30) and collected $ 25,000 might have been using dice coated with cobalt - 60 — a radioactive substance — along with a small electronic device that would control their fall.

Finally, he looks back down at the table and shakes his head up and down.

Take Liverpool +172 to win at home and shake up the EPL table a bit.

Instead, we named the tables at our reception after each of the destinations on our around - the - world honeymoon itinerary and made a hand - shake agreement to leave the country together every year.

For teens, positive feedback may include praise for putting a phone away while at the dinner table or shaking hands when greeting a new person.

There are tons of picnic tables at Fall Harvest for lunching but there is also an amazing drive - in called the Peppermint Twist a mile away with awesome burgers and shakes as well as gated play area for kids.

Hours earlier, when there were still people and clams, Carl Paladino stopped at each table to shake hands and ask people to vote for him instead.

• One at a time, starting with the shortest tower and progressing to the taller ones, secure each LEGO tower in the center of the shake table's top surface.

«Our shake table enables researchers to test structural specimens at full - scale for severe earthquake ground motions, which is crucial for making the kinds of structural engineering advances that save lives and enhance the resilience of communities after natural disasters.»

The researchers from a consortium of U.S. universities, with collaborators from industry and the public sector, are performing the tests on the UC San Diego shake table, the largest outdoor shake table in the world.The facility is part of NHERI@UCSD, an experimental facility at UC San Diego funded by the National Science Foundation as part of its Natural Hazard Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) program.

A resource for NSF - funded researchers around the nation since 2004, the shake table, based at the University of California, San Diego, can replicate ground motions of most of the world's largest earthquakes.

One very large shake table is at the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine.

If you do use a mercury thermometer, shake it down at bedtime and leave it on your night table.

Mr. Whitman «was pounding the table so hard with his fist it was shaking,» said another person at the meeting.

Then there's the lavish Belle Epoque Monte - Carlo Casino — make like James Bond as you try your luck at the roulette tables, martini in hand (shaken, not stirred, of course).

Cannon Beach, an enchanting little cedar - shaked town, is up to the task, with abundant pet - friendly hotels and eateries where dogs are welcome at outdoor tables.

Get there early and let the barman shake you up a Grape Escape or a Lychee Banshee before you settle at your table.

Ms. Donovan, who received her engineering degree at the University of Nevada, Reno, went back to the school to test her design on the huge shaking table there, one of several such test beds for earthquake engineers.

The black - tie event at The Hilton Deansgate on Thursday (November 5th) saw guests enjoy a host of Bond - style entertainment throughout the evening, including casino tables, film props, magicians, music from the films and the odd shaken martini thrown in the mix.