Keywords: Molten salt, pebble-bed reactors; graphite reflector; annular tanks; seismic behavior; fluid-structure interaction; base isolation; design recommendations. Abstract: This report describes ...

An experimental program using a 6 degree-of-freedom earthquake simulator at the University at Buffalo was executed to generate data for supporting validation of numerical models for seismic ...

Deadly and destructive, earthquakes remain unpredictable, but faster models that look beneath the ground, can help better assess the risks ...

The research, modeling an 8.0 quake in Southern California, was selected as a finalist for the Gordon Bell prize for outstanding achievement in high-performance computing applications A ...

Researchers solving today’s most important and complex energy challenges can’t always conduct real-world experiments. This is especially true for nuclear energy research. Considerations such as cost, ...

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Living in California, residents should always be prepared for the next Big One. To get people ready, the California Office of Emergency Services is sending an earthquake ...

A new fault simulator maps out how interactions between pressure, friction and fluids rising through a fault zone can lead to slow-motion quakes and seismic swarms. Earthquakes can be abrupt bursts of ...

The University of California, San Diego, has the largest outdoor shake table, or earthquake simulator, in the world - the only one capable of testing a 10-story building. The shake table can support ...

BACK TO YOU GUYS. ALL RIGHT. THANKS SO MUCH, BRIAN. SO IF AN EARTHQUAKE WERE TO HIT, WOULD YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT TO DO? WELL, RIGHT NOW, CAL OES WANTS TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU AND YOUR FAMILY ARE ...

UC San Diego’s earthquake simulator, one of the two biggest shake tables in the world, is scheduled to test the tallest full-scale building ever built on an earthquake simulator. The NSF-funded ...