Repair Costs of Seismic Test House Could Have Been Prohibitive

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A two-story 1800 square-foot fully furnished townhouse was built and placed inside the lab on two moveable piston-powered shake tables among the largest of their kind in the United States. Engineers and researchers jolted shook and rattled the house ...
A two-story, 1,800 square-foot, fully furnished townhouse was built and placed inside the lab on two moveable, piston-powered shake tables, among the largest of their kind in the United States. Engineers and researchers jolted, shook and rattled the house in a series of five mock earthquakes that grew in size and magnitude. Credit: Texas A&M University
While the group of 200-plus faculty, students and media spectators who gathered at the Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory (SEESL) at the University at Buffalo on Nov. 14 to watch the world's largest seismic test on a wooden structure probably came away feeling that the house held up very well, a close survey of the damage told a different story.


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