This flaw, now well known, was identified after the 1971 Sylmar quake. During that magnitude 6.6 earthquake, two concrete structures at the Veterans Administration Hospital in San Fernando ...

Using the pictorial form, this map gives a visual description of the destruction caused by the larger earthquakes that have struck greater L.A. While the brutal 1971 Sylmar earthquake does not ...

The column will be subjected to the Sylmar earthquake (Northridge 1994) record with increasing amplitudes until failure. SC-2 column will be a benchmark based on which the advantages of other ...

In that test the model was subjected to a series of simulated earthquakes starting with small amplitudes and then gradually increasing amplitude in successive runs. The frame failed under a simulated ...