http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Thu, 23 May 2013 22:42:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/05/27/shake/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/05/27/shake/#comments Thu, 27 May 2010 17:15:10 +0000 Carol Ness http://dev-newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=2582 With a series of computer-controlled earthquakes, simulating some of the most devastating in recent memory, engineers from Berkeley's Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) showed off new technology designed to keep bridges not just from collapsing in a catastrophic temblor but open to traffic. A 30-foot scale-model bridge, set up on the shake table (earthquake simulator) at the Richmond Field Station, was the star of the show, put on by Berkeley’s Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER).]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/05/27/shake/feed/ 0