KPBS

An earthquake shake table gives recycled steel a chance to test its metal

Structural engineers at UC San Diego were waiting to see how a tall building, made from recycled steel, would react in a 6.9 magnitude earthquake. The earthquake shake table was ready to go as the ...
Bdcnetwork.com

First-of-its-kind shake test concludes mass timber’s seismic resilience

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 ...
Woodworking Network

Earthquake simulator to put building to the test

UC San Diego’s earthquake simulator, one of the two biggest shake tables in the world, is scheduled to test the tallest full-scale building ever built on an earthquake simulator. The NSF-funded ...
Los Angeles Times

Watch it sway: 10-story tower survives fake quake in possible boon for tall wood buildings

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 safely be ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

10-story tower survives fake earthquake in possible boon for tall wood buildings

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 safely be ...