Live Science: Earthquake test to shake down shipping container cranes

Release Date: November 19, 2009 This content is archived.

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An article on Live Science about the vulnerability of shipping container cranes to damage from even moderate earthquakes reports that to get a better understanding of how container cranes respond during an earthquake, a one-tenth scale model will be tested on UB's shake table.

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