In the first of a series of seismic shake-table tests to gauge the effects of major earthquakes and fire on a hospital’s non-structural components and systems, a five-story specimen and its contents ...

Many non-structural components in buildings such as furnishing, equipment, electrical and mechanical fixtures, architectural features (e.g., suspended ceilings), storage cabinets, shelves, and glass ...

Research conducted by Civil Engineering Professor Keri Ryan and her team last May is advancing the relatively new field of non-structural earthquake engineering. The team’s work was part of a ...

Keywords: Performance-based designs. Non-structural components and contents (NCC). Designs paradigms. Structural framing systems. Response-history analyses. Retrofitting. Hospitals. Construction.

Research on one of the world's largest earthquake simulators has made buildings, bridges, and other infrastructure more earthquake-safe. Homes, offices, parking garages, bridges and other structures ...

“We did observe some minor damage in the interior, such as some cracking on the partition walls and movement of contents, but many of these things are actually cosmetic,” Hutchinson said. Hutchinson ...