Tuesday, July 28







Civil Engineering students subject dormitory models to simulated earthquake test

Wood splintered, screws flew and columns sheared off from their bases when a series of earthquakes shook the UCLA campus last week. Scale models of college dormitories were put to the seismic test in an earthquake simulator when seven teams from California universities competed in the seismic-design challenge Friday during the 2006 Pacific Southwest Regional Conference of the American Society of Civil Engineers, hosted by the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. Read more...