SHERMAN ISLAND — A model levee wobbled and tossed as if it were on a giant waterbed but held up nearly intact during a series of simulated earthquakes Monday. The tests were meant to investigate a ...

Keywords: Molten salt, pebble-bed reactors; graphite reflector; annular tanks; seismic behavior; fluid-structure interaction; base isolation; design recommendations. Abstract: This report describes ...

Keywords: Numerical simulations. Computer-based models. Disaster recovery. Disaster resiliency. Disaster resilient communities. Northridge, California earthquake ...

A new national web of research labs for studying materials and assemblies under complex seismic loading is beginning to revolutionize earthquake engineering research and deliver on sophisticated ...

A multi-disciplinary team has simulated the largest, longest multiphysics earthquake simulation to date. Just before 8:00 a.m. local time on December 26, 2004, people in southeast Asia were starting ...

The world's largest earthquake-simulation shake table in Miki City, Japan played a large role in helping scientists design buildings that could withstand large earthquakes. The devastating earthquake ...

News media toured Purdue's Robert L. and Terry L. Bowen Laboratory for Large-Scale Civil Engineering Research to prepare for the Great ShakeOut earthquake drill planned for the Midwest Thursday (Feb.

Researchers solving today’s most important and complex energy challenges can’t always conduct real-world experiments. This is especially true for nuclear energy research. Considerations such as cost, ...

Scientists used supercomputer simulation to reveal the underlying mechanism by which the irregular fault geometry, characterized by multisegments, controlled the variation of the fault slip and ...

A new fault simulator maps out how interactions between pressure, friction and fluids rising through a fault zone can lead to slow-motion quakes and seismic swarms. Earthquakes can be abrupt bursts of ...