Design Contest by NASA - Earthquake resistant building

[Designer]

Hi ,

I am take part in a contest organized by NASA Tech Brief and
Solidworks Corporation. The subject is "EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT
BUILDING". Please click the link below to see details & send it to
your friends also.

The winning entry will be decided on various parameters, one of which
is the number of views by other people. So, visit this link at least
once.

http://www.createthefuturecontest.com/pages/view/entriesdetail.html?entryID=533

Don't forget to click the image on the top left

Thanks & Regards,

Anand

 

[D from BC]

Hi ,

I am take part in a contest organized by NASA Tech Brief and
Solidworks Corporation. The subject is "EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT
BUILDING". Please click the link below to see details & send it to
your friends also.

The winning entry will be decided on various parameters, one of which
is the number of views by other people. So, visit this link at least
once.

http://www.createthefuturecontest.com/pages/view/entriesdetail.html?entryID=533

Don't forget to click the image on the top left

Thanks & Regards,

Anand

Contest??

Have the building rest on a sliding surface.. (Teflon to teflon?).
The building slides around during an earthquake.
All lines like water, electric, drain, tel cables..are on break away
connections. (Auto shutdown of water flow.)
For a rough demo of the effectiveness...put a pile of icecubes on a
table and then shake the table around..

Only helps with lateral movement though.

After the earthquake... The building has to be pushed back into
position and all the utility lines reconnected.

For a nice visual of sliding buildings and a bit of movie trivia...I
saw this in a movie...Monty Python??
Corporate pirates would sail their building (with filing cabinet
canons) and would raid other buildings sea pirate style..

D from BC

 

[Ken S. Tucker]

Hi ,

I am take part in a contest organized by NASA Tech Brief and
Solidworks Corporation. The subject is "EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT
BUILDING". Please click the link below to see details & send it to
your friends also.

The winning entry will be decided on various parameters, one of which
is the number of views by other people. So, visit this link at least
once.

http://www.createthefuturecontest.com/pages/view/entriesdetail.html?e...

Don't forget to click the image on the top left

Thanks & Regards,

Anand

You should post that to Alt.architecture.
Ken

 

[Phil Hobbs]

Contest??

Have the building rest on a sliding surface.. (Teflon to teflon?).
The building slides around during an earthquake.
All lines like water, electric, drain, tel cables..are on break away
connections. (Auto shutdown of water flow.)
For a rough demo of the effectiveness...put a pile of icecubes on a
table and then shake the table around..

Only helps with lateral movement though.

After the earthquake... The building has to be pushed back into
position and all the utility lines reconnected.

For a nice visual of sliding buildings and a bit of movie trivia...I
saw this in a movie...Monty Python??
Corporate pirates would sail their building (with filing cabinet
canons) and would raid other buildings sea pirate style..

D from BC

There's a building in downtown Vancouver (whose name I forget) that is
built on top of two large sheets of steel with ball-bearings in between
them, for this very reason.

Vancouver also has the WestCoast Transmission Tower (an office building,
not a truss tower), which has a very very stout concrete post occupying
the centre ~10% of the floor area. The whole building hangs off the top
of this post, and doesn't reach all the way to the ground--it looks like
an ice cream bar sticking straight up.

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs

 

[D from BC]

There's a building in downtown Vancouver (whose name I forget) that is
built on top of two large sheets of steel with ball-bearings in between
them, for this very reason.

Vancouver also has the WestCoast Transmission Tower (an office building,
not a truss tower), which has a very very stout concrete post occupying
the centre ~10% of the floor area. The whole building hangs off the top
of this post, and doesn't reach all the way to the ground--it looks like
an ice cream bar sticking straight up.

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs

Coincidentally, I'm going to be passing by those buildings today..


D from BC

 

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Hi ,

I am take part in a contest organized by NASA Tech Brief and
Solidworks Corporation. The subject is "EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT
BUILDING". Please click the link below to see details & send it to
your friends also.

The winning entry will be decided on various parameters, one of which
is the number of views by other people. So, visit this link at least
once.

So THAT's why you want us to visit. ;-)

I remember seeing on the Discovery channel some Japanese engineering
firm wrapping a building with huge sections of chicken wire, then
applying concrete over that. It worked very well in earthquake
simulation tests. I wonder if San Francisco will adopt that
technology. ;-)

Michael

 

[Phil Hobbs]

Coincidentally, I'm going to be passing by those buildings today..


D from BC

Yeah, well with--what is it, 5 active volcanoes?--within 75 miles of
downtown Vancouver, it sort of concentrates the mind.

Cheers,

Phil "Also from BC" Hobbs

 

[Rene Tschaggelar]

And the submitted plans and ideas are captured by
the organizer. We know that.

Rene

 

[Rich Grise]

D from BC wrote:

There's a building in downtown Vancouver (whose name I forget) that is
built on top of two large sheets of steel with ball-bearings in between
them, for this very reason.

Vancouver also has the WestCoast Transmission Tower (an office building,
not a truss tower), which has a very very stout concrete post occupying
the centre ~10% of the floor area. The whole building hangs off the top
of this post, and doesn't reach all the way to the ground--it looks like
an ice cream bar sticking straight up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/"-And_He_Built_a_Crooked_House-"

Cheers!
Rich

 

[D from BC]

Yeah, well with--what is it, 5 active volcanoes?--within 75 miles of
downtown Vancouver, it sort of concentrates the mind.

Cheers,

Phil "Also from BC" Hobbs

Volcano's?? :O ???
I thought it was just plates..

Worth a google search..
Found..
http://www.discovervancouver.com/gvb/big-one.asp
"
The origin of this danger lies in the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a
1,400 kilometre-long faultline that runs southward from Alaska along
the west coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands and Vancouver Island to
Oregon. Along this line, three different tectonic plates--the North
American Plate, the Pacific Plate and the smaller Juan de Fuca
Plate--join together like pieces in a gargantuan puzzle."

oh no

....but there's many new towers being built downtown ..???

I've experienced 2 earthquakes in BC since 1989.
The last one was so small..I had to check the internet..
Was cool to see it reported online (seismic web site) within 2 hours.


D from BC

 

[Phil Hobbs]

Volcano's?? :O ???
I thought it was just plates..

Worth a google search..
Found..
http://www.discovervancouver.com/gvb/big-one.asp
"
The origin of this danger lies in the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a
1,400 kilometre-long faultline that runs southward from Alaska along
the west coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands and Vancouver Island to
Oregon. Along this line, three different tectonic plates--the North
American Plate, the Pacific Plate and the smaller Juan de Fuca
Plate--join together like pieces in a gargantuan puzzle."

oh no

....but there's many new towers being built downtown ..???

I've experienced 2 earthquakes in BC since 1989.
The last one was so small..I had to check the internet..
Was cool to see it reported online (seismic web site) within 2 hours.


D from BC

Nah. Golden Ears, Garibaldi, Whistler, Baker, and (iirc) Blackcomb are
all active volcanoes, iirc. Seattle has Ranier as well.

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs