To make sure buildings and infrastructure are increasingly earthquake-safe, engineers must understand how seismic activity affects different structures. A new era in large-scale earthquake engineering ...

Integral abutment bridges present a modern, jointless design approach where the bridge superstructure and abutments form a continuous, monolithic system. This design eliminates the traditional ...

Suggested Citation: "8 Use of Computational Mechanics to Predict Liquefaction and Its Consequences." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. State of the Art and Practice in ...

Research engineers at the University of Nevada, Reno’s world-renowned earthquake engineering lab are getting ready to shake up a million pounds of steel and sand. Construction is underway on one of ...

By 2050, the world’s population will reach around 10 billion, and feeding everyone will be a major challenge. Drylands cover nearly half of the global land ...