{"id":61754,"date":"2011-02-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-engineer-heads-to-new-zealand-to-evaluate-building-foundations-in-wake-of-earthquake\/"},"modified":"2011-02-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T00:00:00","slug":"uri-engineer-heads-to-new-zealand-to-evaluate-building-foundations-in-wake-of-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2011\/02\/uri-engineer-heads-to-new-zealand-to-evaluate-building-foundations-in-wake-of-earthquake\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 engineer heads to New Zealand to evaluate building foundations in wake of earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tAim is to learn how to improve future foundation designs<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 February 28, 2011 \u2013 A 溏心vlog免费B站 civil engineering professor is headed to Christchurch, New Zealand on Sunday as part of the Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance team to evaluate the performance of building foundations so future foundations can be better engineered to withstand the stresses from major earthquakes.<\/p>\n


\n\tAaron Bradshaw, who just joined the faculty of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Civil Engineering in January, is one of six engineers from the United States who aim to collect geotechnical engineering data before demolition and reconstruction begins during the one-week trip.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re hoping to learn what we can from this disaster in hopes of improving foundation designs in the future,\u201d said Bradshaw, who earned master\u2019s and doctoral degrees from 溏心vlog免费B站 and now lives in Bellingham, Mass. <\/p>\n


\n\tThe reconnaissance team will be examining a variety of issues related to the affect the earthquake had on buildings. Bradshaw\u2019s focus will be on determining how and why some foundations failed while others remained intact.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s going to be like an engineering Special Ops trip,\u201d Bradshaw said. \u201cWe can\u2019t bring large pieces of equipment, so we\u2019re going to have to make do with the basics and learn as much as we can in a short period of time.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tBradshaw was selected for the reconnaissance team because of his experience designing building foundations in the seismically active region of Seattle and because of his background studying soil liquefaction, a phenomenon in which the strength and stiffness of a soil is reduced by earthquake shaking. The leader of the team is Russell Green, a civil engineer at Virginia Tech who served on Bradshaw\u2019s dissertation committee at 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI have knowledge and background on the practice of foundation design, but this trip is all about a forensic analysis of foundations, which will be a new experience for me,\u201d Bradshaw said.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Christchurch quake, 2011-02-22, Tim Musson<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aim is to learn how to improve future foundation designs KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 February 28, 2011 \u2013 A 溏心vlog免费B站 civil engineering professor is headed to Christchurch, New Zealand on Sunday as part of the Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance team to evaluate the performance of building foundations so future foundations can be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}