Following that agreement, Getty officials said they paid for the conservation work and the anti-earthquake technology and agreed this year to relinquish to Sicily another work from its collection that is in the current exhibition, a terra-cotta head of Hades, because matching fragments were found at a Sicilian museum.
His research interests cover geotechnical engineering, earthquake engineering, underground construction technologies, engineering for large, geographically distributed systems, and geographic information technologies and database management.
His technical interests include sustainable technology; soil dynamics; earthquake engineering; and liquefaction of soils.
Laboratory facilities are available to students in building energy, construction, environmental engineering and science, experimental stress analysis, fluid mechanics, structural and earthquake engineering, and advanced sensing technologies.
In 2010 after the Haiti earthquake, the technology was put into action and more than $30 million was collected in donations by text.
Similar to the relief efforts surrounding the Haiti earthquake last year, technology companies are actively encouraging their users to donate to campaigns coordinating relief efforts in Japan, which suffered a massive earthquake and tsunami a little over a week ago.
Earthquake resilient technology is proven through implementation of elements like struts, timber bands, low storey height and smaller openings, mainstreamed cantilevered load on structural walls, subsequent load reduction in upper stories, proper connection of roof with other structural system, among others.
The floating a-frames will incorporate systems similar to earthquake proofing technology created by Japan-based Air Danshin System.
Yahoo! founders, earthquake engineering pioneer, cryptography inventor and other Stanford engineers honored for their contributions to technology and society.
