Soft-story multi-story building test (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

Soft-story multi-story building test

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In San Francisco, approximately 6,000 "soft-story" wood-frame buildings are being retrofitted to make them safer in strong earthquakes. Full-scale testing of retrofit systems for these soft-story wood-frame buildings was performed on the UC San Diego shake table in 2013. Professor John van de Lindt from Colorado State University, who led this project, played a key role in writing the guidelines for the retrofit of these buildings.

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