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Shaking a 275-ton Building

Posted by Zonk on from the without-using-your-superpowers dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "If you want to predict how a tall building can resist to an earthquake, some researchers have better tools than others. Engineers from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) have built a full-size 275-ton building and really shaken it to obtain earthshaking images. The building was equipped with some 600 sensors and filmed as the shake table simulated the 1994 Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles, California. It gave so much data to the engineers to analyze that they needed a supercomputer to help them. Now they hope their study will yield to better structure performance for future buildings in case of earthquakes."

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  1. Geez I am stupid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am laughing really hard now :). 1) hit submit instead of preview 2) forgot to click anom coward 3) link is not even working. 4) anyway other had already posted a corrected link.
    At least with that amount of self ridicule i can't stoop lower :P.

    Anyway here it is as promised : linky