The tuned mass damper used in Taiwan’s Taipei 101 tower represents an engineering feat that is so impressive the designers decided to make it publicly visible for all to see. Taipei 101’s 730-ton ...
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Video surfaced on Monday (Sept. 19) showing the Taipei 101 damper swaying substantially during the magnitude 6.8 earthquake that struck on Sunday (Sept. 18). At 2:44 p.m. on ...
NASA developed the device, dubbed a fluid harmonic disruptor, to protect occupants of its Ares 1 rocket from violent vibrations during takeoff. And now, Thornton Tomasetti, a structural engineering ...