The FINANCIAL — Devastating earthquakes are a global phenomenon, as anyone in Nepal, Japan, or Indonesia can tell you. The consequences can be crushing: human lives are lost and confusion in everyday ...

Recent earthquake damage has exposed the vulnerability of existing structures to strong ground movement. Researchers are now analyzing shape-memory alloys for their potential use in constructing ...

How do engineers prepare buildings to withstand earthquakes? According to experts in Spain, one approach to this problem is to consider a building as you would a living being. How do engineers prepare ...

(TNS) -- University of Texas researchers have been awarded a $13.7 million federal grant to develop a software platform and other cybertools to help engineers construct buildings, levees, bridges, ...

Colin Caprani does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

ALTHOUGH it might appear that such a subject has little direct application in Great Britain, it will be found that the problem treated in this work is one of vibration in structures and, as such, is ...

The brilliant ancient civilization figured out how to make seismically stable structures using stones that fit together like Legos. Now it’s time to learn from the past. Over 500 years ago, when Incan ...

IIT Kanpur research led by Prof. Nihar Ranjan Patra warns that Kanpur and Prayagraj could face severe damage if an earthquake ...