The brilliant ancient civilization figured out how to make seismically stable structures using stones that fit together like Legos. Now it’s time to learn from the past. Over 500 years ago, when Incan ...

If you’ve ever seen footage of enormous buildings swaying uncontrollably during an earthquake or actually felt the Earth opening under your feet, you would know just how terrifying an earthquake can ...

How do engineers prepare buildings to withstand earthquakes? According to experts in Spain, one approach to this problem is to consider a building as you would a living being. How do engineers prepare ...

Recent earthquake damage has exposed the vulnerability of existing structures to strong ground movement. Researchers are now analyzing shape-memory alloys for their potential use in constructing ...

University of Texas researchers have been awarded a $13.7 million federal grant to develop a software platform and other cyber tools to help engineers construct buildings, levees, bridges, highways ...

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the College of Engineering, Qatar University (QU), organised the first competition of its kind for 'Earthquake-Resistant Structures.' The ...