On paper, the deal makes sense. Faced with the prospect of an extensive, and expensive, seismic safety retrofit for its 1960s-era downtown headquarters, L.A. County decided to vet an alternative: a ...
Faced with the prospect of an extensive, and expensive, seismic safety retrofit for its 1960s-era downtown headquarters, L.A. County decided to vet an alternative: a far newer building, located just ...
A computer model has shown that a building frame made of two-dimensional metamaterial can attenuate the intensity of waves generated by an earthquake 1. The metamaterial can also resist propagation of ...