Tara Hutchinson, a professor in the UC San Diego Department of Structural Engineering, is the lead researcher on a series of tests on a 10-story, cold-formed steel-framed building at the UC San Diego ...

"So we're looking for an innovative building system that we can use in the United States, that can work in earthquake country as well as everywhere else, can be constructed quickly, can be sustainable ...

Structural engineers at UC San Diego were waiting to see how a tall building, made from recycled steel, would react in a 6.9 magnitude earthquake. The earthquake shake table was ready to go as the ...

The University of California, San Diego, has the largest outdoor shake table, or earthquake simulator, in the world - the only one capable of testing a 10-story building. The shake table can support ...

Drivers on Interstate 15 may have noticed smoke near Pomerado Road this morning. KPBS education reporter Katie Anastas says it was part of a UC San Diego study on how fire spreads through ...

Modern engineering practices explicitly design concrete to be more resilient to earthquakes, but older buildings predate such ...

Experts from the National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal have warned that “earthquakes do not kill people, unsafe ...