UC San Diego engineers part of nationwide effort to make buildings earthquake safe

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Engineers at UC San Diego are using recent seismic tests of a three-story parking structure to help improve building codes across the nation. Credit: UC San Diego
Engineers at UC San Diego are using recent seismic tests of a three-story parking structure to help improve building codes across the nation. Credit: UC San Diego
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Engineering researchers from UC San Diego and the University of Arizona have concluded three months of rigorous earthquake simulation tests on a half-scale three-story structure, and will now begin sifting through their results so they can be used in the future designs of buildings across the nation. The engineers produced a series of earthquake jolts as powerful as magnitude 8.0 on a structure resembling a parking garage.


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