Seismic safety experts long have warned that brittle concrete frame buildings pose a particularly deadly risk during a major earthquake. But a horrifying video taken during this week’s magnitude 7.1 ...

Keywords: Shaking Table Tests, Lightly Reinforced Structures, Joint Confinement, Gravity Load Design, Beam Reinforcement, Reinforced Concrete Structures, Failure Mechanisms, Existing Buildings, ...

Two Applied Technology Council hazard-mitigation projects targeting nonductile concrete buildings—often referred to as “killer buildings” because many are at risk of collapse in an earthquake—are ...