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NIST in your Home Bouncing back from earthquakes

NIST building engineers worked with university and private researchers to develop a precast concrete building joint that can withstand strong earthquakes. The joints use high-strength steel cables and mild steel bars that stretch during an earthquake, then return to their original shape. The joints were used to construct a 39-story apartment building in San Francisco.
  Illustration of high-rise apartment building

This 39-story apartment building in San Francisco contains earthquake-resistant joints developed by NIST, the University of Washington, and Charles Pankow Builders Ltd.

(© Illustration courtesy Charles Pankow Builders Ltd.)
automobile factory interior

To advance the state of the art in home building and other construction areas, NIST develops performance tests for new materials and methods.

(photo by H. Mark Helfer)


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date created:1/15/01
last updated: Aug. 02, 2007
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exhibit area showing refrigerator contents and computer kiosk; part of NIST in Your Home exhibit.

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