SAN DIEGO — The biggest outdoor shake table in the world and a robot designed to move along utility lines have received Best of What’s New awards from Popular Science, the world’s largest science and ...

The biggest outdoor shake table in the world has received a Best of What's New award from Popular Science, the world's largest science and technology magazine. The project is featured in the ...

A "shake table" using steel beams and hydraulics to mimic seismic activity is receiving its biggest experiment yet: a 10-story wooden building ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – City-wide Science Week concludes its successful week of science and technology consciousness-raising Friday, April 11, with students demonstrating their wind tunnel and shake ...

The shake table allows researchers to do full-scale simulations of earthquakes to see how buildings would fare. Home Depot responds to nationwide boycott 10-year-old guitar-playing prodigy rocks ...

The shake table cost $2.5 million and received monetary support from the National Science Foundation and Federal Highway Administration.

A 10-story tower mostly made of wood withstood a simulated 7.7 earthquake on UC San Diego’s outdoor shake table Tuesday, underscoring a belief by some engineers that such structures could saf… ...

The NEES @ UCSD shake table has been used to test a wide variety of structures. Clockwise from center of top row: a five-story building equipped with non-structural components (two pictures), a ...

Recent shake-table tests on a wood-framed house with a newly developed low-cost structural system for seismic resistance confirmed researchers' predictions of drastically reduced earthquake damage ...

Last month, a seismic shake test was conducted on a 10-story wooden structure—the world’s tallest building to be tested on a shake table earthquake simulator. The goal? To validate the strength of ...

Performance-based seismic design is on a roll, thanks to recent, first-of-their-kind shake-table tests that proved the viability of a “rocking” braced frame that moves seismic design beyond ...