(TNS) -- University of Texas researchers have been awarded a $13.7 million federal grant to develop a software platform and other cybertools to help engineers construct buildings, levees, bridges, ...

How do engineers prepare buildings to withstand earthquakes? According to experts in Spain, one approach to this problem is to consider a building as you would a living being. How do engineers prepare ...

Recent earthquake damage has exposed the vulnerability of existing structures to strong ground movement. Researchers are now analyzing shape-memory alloys for their potential use in constructing ...

If you’ve ever seen footage of enormous buildings swaying uncontrollably during an earthquake or actually felt the Earth opening under your feet, you would know just how terrifying an earthquake can ...

The National Office for Seismic Evaluation and Vulnerability of Infrastructure and Buildings (ONESVIE) has proposed strengthening and updating, through legislation, the earthquake-resistant ...

ALTHOUGH it might appear that such a subject has little direct application in Great Britain, it will be found that the problem treated in this work is one of vibration in structures and, as such, is ...

Since the 2001 quake, Kutch has embraced the traditional round, mud ‘bhunga’ houses, which can withstand tremors and winds ...

The brilliant ancient civilization figured out how to make seismically stable structures using stones that fit together like Legos. Now it’s time to learn from the past. Over 500 years ago, when Incan ...

ST. LOUIS — St. Louis isn’t far from one of the most active earthquake zones in the country: The New Madrid Seismic Zone. It’s about 160 miles south of St. Louis. But architects and engineers kept it ...