UC Berkeley’s Grimes Engineering Center, a building designed with a novel structural system, is a winner of Fast Company’s ...

Response comparison between a conventionally rigid tower ('Rigid') and one with the proposed control mechanism ('Damped') under a seismic record. Up to 70% less movement in high winds than ...

In the aftermath of the earthquakes that hit Venezuela last week, FIU civil engineering professor Atorod Azizinamini explains how engineers design buildings to survive earthquakes, why some buildings ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck south-western Japan on Tuesday, collapsing part of a shopping mall, bringing down a historic ...