Large-Scale Civil Engineering Research (IMAGE)

Purdue University

Large-Scale Civil Engineering Research

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Researchers built an entire three-story building inside Purdue's Robert L. and Terry L. Bowen Laboratory for Large-Scale Civil Engineering Research to test the effectiveness of a simple, inexpensive method to strengthen buildings and reduce their vulnerability to earthquakes. The reinforced-concrete structure was subjected to forces simulating the effects of a strong earthquake by pulling and pushing the building with six powerful hydraulic "actuators."

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