Quake Simulation to Bring Safer Homes
A 40-second experiment in the Japanese city of Miki involves a seven-story wooden building placed on the world's largest shake table, and measuring its movements as its exposed to a 7.5 magnitude quake.
The final experiment of NSF's multi-year NEESWood project, the effort tested new ways to construct buildings that can withstand severe forces of nature.
After repairs, on July 14th, the six-story wood-frame structure became the subject of the largest shake table test the world has seen to date: six stories, all-wood construction, shaken to motions from the 1994 Northridge earthquake, amplified to a level that equates to an event that occurs, on average, once every 2,500 years.
World's Largest Earthquake Shake Table Test in Japan
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