Earthquake Test Shows Need for Upgrade & Retrofit Technologies - Part 1 of 2.

Advanced Materials & Composites News,  September, 2000  

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The California Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREe) and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) conducted the final damaging test performed on a 2-story woodframe house, in mid-July. Attendees witnessed at the Powell Structural Research Laboratory-South; UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering what happens to a house when it is hit with epicentral or near-fault shaking simulating that recorded by a strong motion seismograph in the 1994 Northridge Earthquake in Los Angeles.

This structural testing lab complex is the "busiest in the world," ...

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