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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 09:40:18 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: In Defiance of Earthquakes
On July 14, a six-story condominium building will shake with earthquake forces that occur, on average, only once every 2,500 years. The final experiment of NSF's multi-year NEESWood project, part of the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation, the effort will test new ways to construct woodframe buildings that can withstand the severe forces of nature.
Only hours after the test--occurring overnight at Japan's E-Defense facility, home of the world's largest shake table, which can ...
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