News tagged with concrete structure
Long carbon fibers could improve blast resistance of concrete structures
Oct 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Dr. Jeffery Volz, assistant professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, and his team have received $567,000 to explore ...
Retrofitted Historic Building Survives Strong Simulated Jolts During UCSD Test (w/ Video)
Aug 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When a series of rigorous simulated earthquakes - measuring up to a 7.5 magnitude - jolted the three-story, 1920s era reinforced concrete structure, UC San Diego engineers were not quite sure ...
Earthquake engineering research aims to save lives, billions of dollars
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 17, 2009 |
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The 6.7 magnitude earthquake that struck the Los Angeles community of Northridge at 4:30 a.m. on Jan. 17, 1994, killed 57 people, injured more than 5,000, and caused an estimated $20 billion in damage, making it the costliest ...
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One-story masonry building survives strong jolts during seismic tests (w/Video)
Apr 14, 2009 |
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A one-story masonry structure survived two days of intense earthquake jolts after engineering researchers at the University of California, San Diego put it to the test. The series of tests, performed at UC ...
New building design withstands earthquake simulation (Video)
Feb 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Michigan simulated an off-the-charts earthquake in a laboratory to test their new technique for bracing high-rise concrete buildings. Their technique passed ...
Three-Story Structure Slammed in Magnitude 8 Earthquake on Shake Table
May 07, 2008 |
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Engineering researchers are subjecting a three-story structure resembling a parking garage to a sequence of earthquake "shake test" jolts as powerful as magnitude 8.0 as part of a series of seismic tests to ...
Novel experiments on cement yield concrete results
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 02, 2007 |
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Using a brace of the most modern tools of materials research, a team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Northwestern University has shed new light on one of mankind’s older construction materials—cement.
MIT slows concrete creep to a crawl
Jun 16, 2009 |
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MIT civil engineers have for the first time identified what causes the most frequently used building material on earth — concrete — to gradually deform, decreasing its durability and shortening the lifespan of infrastructures ...
Self-healing concrete for safer, more durable infrastructure (w/Video)
Apr 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A concrete material developed at the University of Michigan can heal itself when it cracks. No human intervention is necessary--just water and carbon dioxide.
UC San Diego engineers part of nationwide effort to make buildings earthquake safe
Aug 22, 2008 |
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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 ...
Cement's basic molecular structure finally decoded
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the 2,000 or so years since the Roman Empire employed a naturally occurring form of cement to build a vast system of concrete aqueducts and other large edifices, researchers have analyzed the molecular ...
Handheld device 'sees' damage in concrete bridges, piers
May 21, 2007 |
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Engineers at MIT have developed a new technique for detecting damage in concrete bridges and piers that could increase the safety of aging infrastructure by allowing easier, more frequent, onsite inspections ...
Engineers help secure California highways and roads
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Sprays of dirt flew out of a soil box that held a retaining wall as it violently shook from a simulated 7.4 magnitude earthquake. The wall was put to test recently by engineers at the UC San Diego Englekirk ...
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