Frictional base isolation systems improve earthquake resistance in timber buildings, reducing costs and complexity while ...

Our planet is covered by tectonic plates that are slowly moving around, pushing into or sliding past one another along boundaries called faults. Friction sometimes causes two of these plates to get ...

Anyone who has strolled by downtown’s scaffolding-shrouded Salt Lake Temple may not be surprised by news that the expected completion date of the iconic building’s massive renovation and seismic ...