Earthquake Test

WOOD CONSTRUCTION PERFORMS WELL IN LARGEST-EVER EARTHQUAKE SIMULATION; Full-scale Seven-Story Building Demonstrates Safety, Stability
In the worlds largest-ever earthquake simulation held this week in Japan, a full-scale, six-story condominium building made from wood atop a single-story of steel got good marks from researchers for stability and safety after being shaken for 40 seconds in a simulated 7.5 magnitude earthquake.
The results demonstrated that wood-frame buildings can be built to withstand major earthquakes and will help researchers validate new design methods for mid-rise, wood-framed buildings in urban, earthquake-prone areas. The advances ultimately will improve the construction and safety of wood buildings in the U.S. and around the world.
This weeks test confirms what we know to be true about woods strength for use in disaster-prone areas. Along with woods renewability, low life-cycle environmental impacts, and ability to sequester carbon, wood provides the optimal combination of green building and stability for earthquake-prone areas, said Robert Glowinski, Group Vice President for Forestry and Wood Products. Moving forward we can take invaluable information from this test to provide new safe wood building options for earthquake zones, as well as for other applications. Construction innovations are continually demonstrating the flexibility and superiority of wood and this research reinforces that.
Conducted in Miki City, near Kobe, Japan, on the worlds largest earthquake shake table at Japans National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, the simulation was sponsored by the National Science Foundation and conducted by researchers from Colorado State University, along with advisors from industry and academia. American Forest & Paper Associations wood engineering staff served on the advisory committee to the project and AF&PAs Tokyo staff provided local support.
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• wood buildings

[mitchhowton]

At 00:14 i swear I heard a snap

[SadSmile87]

It's just like watching a game oh Jenga that never ends... Not really that exciting.

[Jarl2762]

See this can go both ways if it would have collapsed then u would have done all that work for nothing and u would have debree in the earthquake simulator thing an if it stood up u have to tear it down then build it somewhere else

[TheMinimouse15]

nice achivement!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[happinesson]

nice layout of the infrastructure..it didn't collapse, it stand the earthquake!

[adelle0001]

informative para mkabalo unsaon pgsurvive kung naay earthquake.

[SamuelLionheart]

looks like jelly :3



[eros84v]

@MrStef21 and resonance :)

[cameron4fun]

Great test on a building that is under construction but for a "real" test add the other 1/2 million pounds of components like windows, stucco, flooring, plumbing etc and the whole pressure and shear load change. Yes this building is prob 10x better than anything else out there but without stucco you see no cracks, without windows, no broken glass so the building appears perfect when in fact cosmetically it would be destroyed, Structure is the VIP issue but this video is a bit deceiving.

[datzfast]

i could build a wooden structure with steel cabel suports to withstant anything