110-Foot Concrete Bridge Withstands 8.0 Earthquake Simulation

By Rajesh Thyagarajan

Purdue University

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After a succession of eight separate earthquake simulations, a 110-foot long, 200-ton concrete bridge model at the University of Nevada, Reno withstood a powerful jolting, three times the acceleration of the disastrous 1994 magnitude 6.9 Northridge, Calif. earthquake, and survived in good condition.

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  • Rajesh Thyagarajan (2010), "110-Foot Concrete Bridge Withstands 8.0 Earthquake Simulation," https://datacenterhub.org/resources/1810.

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