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Last In Series of Outdoor Shake Table Tests Pushes Limits - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR

Publication Date: 08-MAY-06
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On May 1, researchers at the University of California, San Diego's Englekirk Engineering Center finished a series of shake-table tests of a 275-ton, seven-story steel and concrete apartment building that has been under way for months, by "cranking it up" to represent the ground motions recorded near the epicenter of the magnitude 6.8 Northridge (Calif.) quake of Jan. 17, 1998. "We have been ...

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