The earth seems to be getting vulnerable to earthquakes with each passing days, killing million every year. True, natural disasters are not in the hand of its habitats – but one can find ways to guard against it, in the maximum possible way.
This year, November will witness a 73,000-pound, 1,800-square-foot woodhouse that will be subjected to the equivalent of a very powerful earthquake. And these all will happen at the University at Buffalo’s Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory.
Shock absorbers will be installed horizontally throughout the walls of the woodhouse. 250 sensors installed throughout the house will be recording the experiment with the help of a dozen video cameras.
This experiment, called NEESWood will help structural engineers to increase the height of wood-frame buildings, located in active seismic zones safely.
Via: Emerging Technology Trends
