Dubai, Building It Better: Earthquake Testing Metal Buildings
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See all the action as industry and university researchers team up to find the limits of innovative metal building designs as they are subjected to some of the most extreme earthquake shaking ever recorded. Series: Earthquake and Seismology Programs [9/2010] [Science] [Show ID: 18699]
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wow good info thanks for showing
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Why put the heavy concrete panels on these buildings?
Chunks of concrete kill people.
Many quakes have up and down shaking alternating with side to side shaking. -
Very imformative.
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Thanks
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What is 300% DBE? like more or less of what happened in Japan 8.9
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Glad you like it! Click the new annotation at the open to watch our latest documentary about earthquake testing. Some amazing dramatic footage!
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Thank You Very Much for uploading this video! Being a civil engineer myself, i had learned so much information on the behavior of metals i.e. I-Beams during an earthquake.. Seismic design and analysis is very important in every structure.. For we don't know where and when an earthquake might strike. Again Thank you!
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I wander if they take rides on the simulator. 150%, even 300% isn't shit. Every additional whole number in the Richter scale accounts for %1000 increase in intensity. 475 years isn't all that long, though it probably is for a steel building. What happens to that structure at the ends of the building? You would assume that it would be stronger but maybe not, especially for large slabs of vertical concrete pounding into one another. What if concrete is used only on one side?
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It looks like the movement is only in one axis. I wounder what would happen if they did the test again and rotate the structure 90 degrees.
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