Whole lot of shaking
Dec. 27th, 2007 09:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mbarkerI'm not quite sure what to make of this. The news reported on a bit of research someone here in Japan has embarked on. Basically, Mexico, Iran, Pakistan and other places have had earthquakes in the recent past, and someone noticed that we really don't have good studies of how adobe buildings collapse. So, they obtained an adobe building in Pakistan and brought it to Japan. Here it was set up (with sensors) on an earthquake simulator and subjected to shocks while being recorded in detail. Apparently it dealt relatively well with low level shocks, but then collapsed as they raised the level.
Not that you would particularly want to try to build an earthquake proof building with adobe, but I suppose the results will both suggest what can be done to improve such construction and what to expect when earthquakes hit.
Not that you would particularly want to try to build an earthquake proof building with adobe, but I suppose the results will both suggest what can be done to improve such construction and what to expect when earthquakes hit.
