Wilfred D. "Bill" Iwan, an ASCE Distinguished Member who was an innovator in engineering seismology and professor emeritus of civil engineering at California Institute of Technology, has died. He was 85.
Brittle power transformer bushings tend to fail during large earthquakes, but researchers have found a way to reduce downtime and repair costs through a simple, inexpensive fix.
Tsunamis might be infrequent and localized, but their impact on coastlines can be catastrophic. Find out how engineers’ long-running efforts to better protect coastal communities have finally paid off.
A team of researchers led by Guoliang Huang, Ph.D., has designed a flexible “cloaking” material that has the potential to help buildings withstand vibrations, such as those created by seismic waves.
The newly developed material is a multilayered, elastic lattice that can be stretched and formed to any surface and applied as a wrap, according to Huang, the James C. Dowell Professor in the University...
A NEW MATHEMATICAL model uses a landslide model and a pinball machine analogy to help predict the damage caused by ground motions during seismic events. The new model was developed by Victor C. Tsai, Ph.D., an associate professor of geophysics in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at Brown University, and Greg Hirth, Ph.D., a professor of geophysics in the same department at...
Every day in April, ASCE Plot Points is calling a different civil engineer from around the world to find out how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting their life, their community, their work and the civil engineering profession.
Thirty days. Thirty phone calls.
Community Call 24 continues our City of Dreams mini-series, talking to three young civil engineers working in Los Angeles. Jeena Jayamon is a project...
Salesforce Tower, in San Francisco, has been honored by ASCE as a 2020 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Honor Award recipient.
All 10 Honor Award projects will be showcased at ASCE’s 2020 OPAL Gala, March 13, in Washington, D.C., with two runners-up and the OCEA winner announced at the event.
Salesforce Tower is the tallest office building in a severe seismic zone in the Western Hemisphere. Standing...
