The building swayed as it would have in the 1999 Jiji earthquake in Taiwan. That magnitude 7.7 quake killed more than 2,000 people. Buildings made of ...
Simpson Strong-Tie, the leader in engineered structural connectors and building solutions, announced today the successful completion of a series of se...
UC San Diego has hosted the tallest full-scale seismic building test on an earthquake simulator. The LEVER Architecture-designed 10-story building, ma...
A 10-story mass timber ?rocking? frame, designed to be resilient enough to withstand powerful earthquakes with little or no structural damage, proved ...
The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) TallWood Project, led by Pei and funded by the National Science Foundation, aims to in...
University of Washington researchers are in San Diego conducting earthquake tests with the tallest building ever on a shake table. This project pushes...
Researchers from the University of Washington are taking part in a project to determine how a 10-story building made entirely out of timber will perfo...
An engineers' group at the University of California San Diego has come up with a stretchable ultrasonic array that streamlines serial, non-invasive, t...
Researchers at the University of California San Diego have invented an adhesive, elastic patch capable of performing ultrasounds--but don't expect any...
A new study found radiation from nail dryers may damage DNA and breed cancer-causing mutations in human cells. For many women, gel manicures are a par...
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego removed large particles from hydrogel, diluting it with water to make it an injectable substance...