Our interview with Kyle Tourjé of Alpha Structural Inc. on improving earthquake resilience when placing concrete.

This project quantified the improvement in structural behavior of reinforced concrete shear walls retrofitted with a new method that allows the walls to rock over the foundation and self-center after ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Some of the buildings that collapsed during the massive earthquakes in Syria and Turkey are known as non-ductile concrete structures. "The thing about concrete is it's very ...

Cementitious composite sprayed on 10 mm thick allows masonry walls to withstand 9.0 and stronger earthquake force; now being applied for an elementary school’s seismic retrofit A new seismic-resistant ...

Over the last few years, much of the focus on earthquake safety has been on concrete buildings and wooden apartments with weak first stories, which can collapse in a major earthquake. But ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Two Los Angeles City Council members called on the city Tuesday to investigate the risk to older concrete buildings following media reports estimating at least 50 of the more ...

Santa Monica is poised to require safety improvements to as many as 2,000 earthquake-vulnerable buildings in what would be the nation's most extensive seismic retrofitting effort, according to a ...