Forensic Engineering: Lack of Reinforced-Concrete Walls Cited in Earthquake Building Failure

Structural Engineering: Novel Braced Frames Will Help Salt Lake City Hospital Withstand Earthquakes

Symposium Highlights Finding from Investigations of Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami

Book Review: Fire Following Earthquake edited by Charles Scawthorn, John M. Eidinger, and Anshel J. Schiff. Reston, Virginia: ASCE Press, 2005

Book Review: A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005

NewsBriefs: NSF Grant To Subsidize Tests On Effects Of Earthquakes (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

Zemmouri, Algeria, Mw 6.8 Earthquake of May 31, 2003
Prepared by the Earthquake Investigations Committee of the Technical Council of Lifeline Earthquake Engineering ASCE. This TCLEE Monograph summarizes...

San Simeon Earthquake of December 22, 2003 and Denali, Alaska, Earthquake of November 3, 2002
Prepared by the Earthquake Investigations Committee of the Technical Council of Lifeline Earthquake Engineering of ASCE. This TCLEE Monograph provides...

Book Review: Earthquake Geodynamics: Seismic Case Studies edited by E. L. Lekkas. BIllerica, Massachusetts: WIT Press, 2004

Book Review: The Big One: The Enormous Earthquake That Rocked Early America and Helped Create a Science by Jake Page and Charles Officer, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004

NewsBriefs: New Method Predicts Earthquakes (UCLA News)

NewsBriefs: Some St. Louis Bridges Unprepared for Earthquakes (University of Missouri at Rolla)

Reaching for the Sky
Tapei 101�soon to open its doors as the world's tallest building�will resist devastating typhoons, earthquakes, and sway with an ingenious system of outrigger trusses, supercolumns,...

Finished With a Flourish
The Walt Disney Concert Hall has survived budgeting shortfalls, a major earthquake, and formidable design changes to become an evocative beacon for the arts in downtown Los Angeles....

Safe!
Rather than tear down a century-old warehouse that occupied the site of a planned baseball stadium, engineers renovated and reused the structure as part of the ballpark. Fans can view...

Earthquake Engineering: 'Intelligent' Earthquake Friction Dampers Adapt To Varying Forces

A Concerted Effort
With aid from the National Science Foundation, 15 Universities across the country have expanded and upgraded their earthquake simulation research facilities. These resources have now been...

Policy Briefing: Combined Earthquake, Windstorm Legislation Becomes Law

Short Takes: ASCE Applauds Earthquake and Wind Legislation

Super Structure
The tallest building in Latin America, the Torre Mayor rises 55 stories in one of the world's most seismically active zones to demonstrate how innovative structural engineering...

 

 

 

 

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