Globally, a vast amount of investment is heading towards climate resilience, but reliable infrastructure must account for issues beyond general climate concerns ...

Japan sits on one of the most active seismic zones on Earth, yet its cities are filled with towers designed to bend, absorb energy, and protect lives when the ground moves. This video breaks down the ...

The 19WCSI series started in 1989 in San Francisco and returned to the San Francisco Bay Area for the first time in 35 years. The event was co-organized by Dr. Ian Aiken, president of the Anti-Seismic ...

中国2月26日宣布在台湾南部沿海举行突击实弹演习，促使台北调遣军队应对并对这一突如其来的行动表示谴责。此次演习发生在台湾接待多国代表团并主办国际安全论坛和二轨对话的几天后。专家指出，尽管中国通过军事和外交手段试图孤立台湾，但台北在扩大 ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Vertical coring has been completed at the Salt Lake Temple. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints called this a "monumental" three-year process and "the most ...

Keywords: Seismic isolation, nuclear power plants, risk analysis, fragility analysis, test specifications. Revision 01: This revision updates the discussion on the derivation of fragility functions ...

A team led by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency has completed demonstration tests to develop a new floating seismic isolation system (FSIS) for SMRs to support areas of high seismicity. (Credit: Hiroshi ...

Base-isolated structural systems have been more and more investigated through both numerical and experimental campaigns, in order to evaluate their effective advantages, in terms of vulnerability ...