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Nevada earthquake lab testing safeguards for Accelerated Bridge Construction connections
The goal was to prove the bridge connections are ready to be part of Accelerated Bridge Construction techniques to help provide earthquake safeguards.
May 18, 2018
Roadbuilding
Scientists test new earthquake resistant bridge designs
Saiid Saiidi, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno, served as project leader in testing new bridge designs with connectors that he says can better withstand violent temblors and help speed reconstruction after a major quake causes damage, the Montreal Gazette reports. Scientists conducted tests using a “shake table” to […]
October 12, 2017
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The engineering behind the new earthquake-proof bridge near Seattle’s SR99 tunnel project
The bridge being built near the south entrance of the tunnel for the State Route 99 project under Seattle is designed to be earthquake-proof, King 5 reports. If that project sounds familiar that’s because it’s the tunnel being dug by Bertha, the largest tunnel boring machine in the world and a piece of equipment whose exploits we’ve […]
November 21, 2016
Roadbuilding
Make a Shake: Researchers simulate a big quake
It’s a little bit of earthquake apples and earthquake oranges, but it’s valuable nevertheless. A two-story building was a broken up mess at the University of Nevada, Reno’s world-renowned earthquake engineering laboratory after researchers set in motion the final highest amplitude tests in the six-year long, multi-institutional research project that is testing the nonstructural elements […]
April 26, 2013
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One year later, a mat with 50-percent RAP looks really good.
December 1, 2010
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