Building Design Pulls Structure Upright after Earthquake (VIDEO)

Stanford University

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Stanford Prof. Greg Deierlein, Civil and Environmental Engineering, explains how he used the world’s largest shake table to test a new steel "rocking frame" design that allows a building to rock in a controlled fashion during an earthquake. The design also confines damage during earthquake shaking to certain easily replaced parts and also lets buildings pull themselves back into plumb after the earthquake.

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