Story: :: Researchers use an earthquake simulator to test the structural integrity of a 10-Storey building in California
:: The tests include re-nactments of a 6.9 magnitude tremor on light, high precision steel
:: June 23, 2025
:: San Diego, California
:: Ben Shafer, Johns Hopkins University
“So We’re Looking for An Innovative Building System That We Can Use In The United States, That Can Work In Earthquake Country As Will As Everywhere Else, Can Be Constructed Quickly, Can Be Sustainable, You Know, All The Things Things Things That Build More Housing and More Commercial for the US. “
:: Tara Hutchinson, UC San Diego
“One Big Message That We Have To Get Out, I Guess, Is We’d Like To Push The Envelope for the Use of Light, High Precision Steel, and Materials like This Inudible. First. SO Design Engineer Cannot Use This Material To Go Above That Storey Level In Building Construction. it’s a succcess. “
The Building’s Skeleton is Made from Cold-Reformed Sheets of Construction-Grad Steel, that are then shaped at room temperature to make Individual Structural Components.
The test also allowed them to Investigate whether pipes and other building features remained intact.
