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Experts projected that five steel-frame high-rise buildings would collapse, as would 50 brittle concrete buildings, either completely or partially.

The unanimous vote by the Los Angeles City Council capped decades of efforts to retrofit two types of buildings that pose the most serious potential for loss of life in a big quake: brittle concrete buildings that dot L.A.'s major boulevards and the boxy, wood-frame apartment complexes built on top of carports.

The unanimous vote by the Los Angeles City Council caps decades of efforts to strengthen two types of buildings that pose the most serious potential for loss of life in a big quake: Brittle concrete buildings that dot L.A.'s major boulevards and the boxy wood-frame apartment complexes built on top of carports.

It's actually the older, brittle concrete buildings that are the most dangerous, Jordan said.

Just a decade ago, the City Council did not support even counting the number of brittle concrete buildings in Los Angeles.

It is a little brittle, but for building models of solid objects it is amazing.

Strain-hardening engineered cementitious composite materials (ECC) is proposed to substitute quasi-brittle concrete materials for building extended spent nuclear fuel (SNF) storage systems in nuclear power plants.

The Los Angeles City Council to approve the mayor's proposal for long-overdue mandatory retrofitting of thousands of soft-story wood buildings and brittle concrete ones that could suffer devastating destruction in a major earthquake.

When I was first scanning the photographs on the NY Times of the destroyed apartment buildings, school and offices the first thing that I was horrified by was the surreal brittle and unreinforced construction of all of these places.

It's a statement against the bland, brittle (literally) and identity-lacking building that dominates much of the urban landscape nowadays.

The 1994 Northridge earthquake caused brittle fractures in steel moment frame building connections, despite causing little visible building damage in most cases.