Earthquake engineering is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering that designs and analyzes structures, such as buildings and bridges, with earthquakes in mind. Its overall goal is to make such structures more resistant to earthquakes. An earthquake (or seismic) engineer aims to construct structures that will not be damaged in minor shaking and will avoid serious damage or collapse in a major earthquake. Earthquake engineering is the scientific field concerned with protecting society, the natural environment, and the man-made environment from earthquakes by limiting the seismic risk to socio-economically acceptable levels. Traditionally, it has been narrowly defined as the study of the behavior of structures and geo-structures subject to seismic loading; it is considered as a subset of structural engineering, geotechnical engineering, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, applied physics, etc. However, the tremendous costs experienced in recent earthquakes have led to an expansion of its scope to encompass disciplines from the wider field of civil engineering, mechanical engineering and from the social sciences, especially sociology, political science, economics and finance.
Engineering research seeks improvements in theory and practice in fields such as (for example) high-speed computation, bioengineering, earthquake prediction, power systems, nanotechnology and construction.
Major contributors to engineering research around the world include governments, private business,
and academia.
The results of engineering research can emerge in journal articles, at academic conferences, and in the form of new products on the market.
Military-related research into science and technology has led to "dual-use" applications, with the adaptation of weaponry, communications and other defense systems to civilian use. Programmable digital computers and the Internet which connects them, the GPS satellite network, fiber-optic cable, radar and lasers provide examples.
But HaroldAquino, a civil engineer and disaster resilience researcher at Massey University of New Zealand, said such risks “have to be on our radar.” He, Bagtasa, and others who study the hazards ...
A large-scale earthquake simulation engineering research facility, led by Tianjin University in North China, has been put into operation after passing national acceptance on Tuesday, reported China News Service.
Kristen Stewart headlines the movie as Norah Price, a mechanical engineer on a deep-sea research facility, Kepler 822. Following an unexpected earthquake, Kepler 822 is decimated and the escape pods ...
For steel moment frames, Northridge "showed us that the connections were susceptible to damage," said David Cocke, a former president of the EarthquakeEngineering Research Institute and co-founder of ...
The cooperation would help advance research in areas including earthquake engineering, structural health monitoring, and disaster risk reduction technologies.
For steel moment frames, Northridge 'showed us that the connections were susceptible to damage,' said David Cocke, a former president of the EarthquakeEngineering Research Institute and co-founder of ...
On Wednesday, Doug Gibbons, a research engineer for the network, put the number at 115. This graph shows the earthquakes that have been detected on the edge of the Hanford Reach National Monument starting Sept.
A recent 4.4-magnitude earthquake that struck Highland Park on Aug ... 20, 2024, since last weeks earthquake ... 20, 2024, since last weeks earthquake ... Monica Kohler, a research professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering at Caltech.
On Thursday, a week after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake shook the Japanese island of Kyushu, a sense of normalcy is returning to Japan... and has invested heavily in instrumentation, analytical capacity, and seismic/engineering research.
The magnitude 4.9 earthquake ... “Seasickness is something you get when you’re in these high-rises' during certain earthquakes, Caltech research professor of civil engineering Monica Kohler said in 2019.
(ECNS) -- China has completed the world's largest real-time earthquake monitoring system, said Ma Qiang, a researcher and chief engineer at the Instituted of EarthquakeForecasting of China ...
