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IGERT-TEECH: Preparing for "the Big One"
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What happens when you put a fully equipped five-story building that includes two hospital floors, computer servers, fire barriers and even a working elevator through a series of high-intensity earthquakes? Structural engineers at UC San Diego began to get some answers last week when they launched a series of tests conducted on the world’s largest outdoor shake table at the Englekirk Structural Engineering Center.
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/features/seismic_stres...
Our IGERT team is part of this as a payload project, developing and testing cyber-archaeology techniques for the acquisition of time-varying “big-data” records.
