Tokyo’s Earthquake-Resistant Supertall SKYSCRAPER - #31
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Building Seismic Engineering and Earthquake Resistance Skyscrapers
All skyscrapers are designed to cope with vertical loads, just basically their own weight and the weight of the occupants or whatever may be going in them. But earthquake resistance skyscrapers have to deal with this additional kind of cyclic lateral load, which is one that moves repeatedly back and forth - i.e. an earthquake. Fred: It's almost like incredible how some communities or countries or regions are almost like used to it. You know, it almost becomes like everyday life. They even design their house in a way that like, you know, knives are stored in a specific place. And I just find it, it's so alien to us, isn't it really where we
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