Ioana Patringenaru
Associate Director, Media Relations, UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
Phone: 619-253-4474
Email: ipatring@ucsd.edu
Marti LaChance
Communications Manager, NHERI NSF
Phone: 765-918-6517
Email: lachance@purdue.edu
We’re taking you underground and inside the largest outdoor earthquake simulator in the world. You’re about to learn how this high-performance shake table is powered and equipped with smart-control technology that can simulate the most devastating earthquakes in modern history. Full Story
Links for Tallwood Project media day. Full Story
A 10-story building made of cross-laminated timber will be tested on one of the world’s two largest earthquake simulators at the University of California San Diego this spring. Known as the Tallwood project, it is the tallest full-scale building ever to be constructed and tested on an earthquake simulator, or shake table. The tests are scheduled to start in late April. Full Story
Teams of researchers from California are heading to Turkey and Syria to survey the damage from last week's 7.8 magnitude earthquake. Much of the data collected will be shared with scientists and engineers at some of University of California campuses. UC San Diego will use the data in its "shake table" project. Full Story
On Monday, 180 middle school students from Oceanside and National City showcased their engineering skills in UC San Diego's Seismic Outreach K'Nex Competition. Full Story
It?s a humbling sound: middle-schoolers hearing a structure crash into pieces after they spent the past five weeks building it. For Jefferson Middle School student Emma Davis, it?s also a familiar sound. Full Story
Construction Specialties (CS) is the only manufacturer in the market that can claim its modular stair system can withstand 100 earthquakes. Thanks to extensive practical testing conducted this spring at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) on the tallest building ever to be seismically tested, CS has identified five significant insights that will impact all future research and development in stair solutions. Full Story
It is often said: ?The bigger they are, the harder they fall.? But the largest full-scale building ever tested on the University of California San Diego?s newly upgraded outdoor shake table remained upright through dozens of earthquake simulations run over several weeks. Full Story
The structure is the tallest ever subjected to simulated earthquakes on the world?s largest high-performance ?shake table,? which uses hydraulic actuators to thrust the steel platform through six degrees of motion to replicate seismic force. The shake-table trials at a University of California at San Diego facility are part of the TallWood Project, an initiative to test the seismic resiliency of high-rise buildings made of mass timber. Full Story