USC Engineering Insights – USC Viterbi’s Professor Bora Gencturk explains why meeting seismic code does not guarantee that a ...
A new Nature Communications Comment argues that Türkiye's 2018 building inspection reform displaced rather than transferred ...
A novel latticed steel-concrete composite beam-column joint for prefabricated frames carried over 40 percent higher peak ...
More than a decade after Los Angeles adopted its mandatory retrofit program for certain non-ductile concrete buildings, fewer than 15% ...
Parts of the San Francisco Ferry Building could collapse in an extreme earthquake, as foundation supports fail beneath sections of the building, its south promenade and back waterfront plaza, ...
Dhaka has long expanded faster than it has planned. Wetlands have been filled, low-lying areas built over, and high-rises have been raised that may not withstand a major earthquake. In the fifth ...