LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- After a massive earthquake struck central Mexico, horrifying images of collapsed buildings emerged and had many Los Angeles residents wondering if that could happen here. One ...

It's been 17 years since the Northridge earthquake, but thousands of soft-story structures in Los Angeles remain unfit to handle a similar tremor. In December, officials finished work on the ...

Keywords: Retrofitting. Manuals. Highway infrastructure. Bridges. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Performance-based earthquake engineering (PBEE). Performance ...

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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Mandatory earthquake retrofitting should be required on thousands of buildings in Los Angeles to reduce potential damage from a devastating quake, experts told city lawmakers ...

Keywords: Retrofitting, Passive Control Systems, Energy Dissipation, Friction Damping Devices, Reinforced Concrete Frames, Shaking Table Tests, Analytical Models, and Added Damping. Abstract: This is ...

How hard is it to design a bridge to withstand the force that took down the Francis Scott Key Bridge? Once engineers understand the forces that a structure will be subjected to, they can design a ...

“As of now, there is no proposal for conducting Safety Audit of the building as retrofitting cost of the existing building ...