When you hear about designers biomimicking butterflies, your first thought is probably about creating remote-controlled ...

Zig-zagging around the glass-and-steel perimeter of the UC Berkeley Grimes Engineering Center, 36 thin metal rods could be what it takes to prevent the building’s total destruction. The rods are the ...

A new steel cylinder filled with spheres could save buildings from earthquakes without electricity. Discover how this passive ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Researchers at UC San Diego on Monday put a 10-story, cold-formed steel building to the test, simulating how the structure would move in the midst of a major earthquake. The ...

A team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego and Johns Hopkins University tested a 10-story, cold-framed steel building for seismic safety on Monday morning. The 10-story ...

While the Ferry Building survived the 1906 earthquake, a previously unreported engineering analysis shows the risks to the ...

Duke faculty and students are working with colleagues in Nepal to give the country more warning before deadly earthquakes strike.

Earthquakes are among the deadliest of natural global threats to society, responsible for the majority of disaster-related deaths and financial losses in the past decades. According to a recent ...

But a newly resurfaced engineering study reveals another problem: Major structural deficiencies could turn the aging building into a deathtrap in the event of an earthquake. Completed in 2006, the ...