Cnet Cn200 Pro Fast Ethernet Adapter)

A cushion of rubber, water, air, wood and soft against the earthquake: how to build skyscrapers anti-seismic

A "pudding" of rubber (Bridgestone, the tire Ferrari), a layer of water (so much), air (a lot), cement hose (recently invented), a lot of wood and how powerful shock those of cars. These materials techniques on which physically hold the Japanese mega-skyscrapers that even with the huge earthquake of Thursday, March 11, survived. Moving, swaying in the horizontal and vertical but firmly back to its original position thanks to new materials with memory, which have undergone twists and shock return to their original shape. And instead of heeding the superstars who so love glass walls and patios that undermine the whole basis and building projects are beginning to adapt to the real needs of the area.
Copy the Trentino. Canada, Japan and the Province of Trento are the three most important centers today for the construction of buildings with high and very high resistance to earthquakes. The Canadian Centre for study of the structural wood - by far the most anti-earthquake material - provide technology and materials to Japan after the devastating Kobe earthquake of 1995. Since then, Japan especially ii skyscrapers and industrial buildings and commercial, very strict rules made mandatory as in no other country in the world. In summary: to build so that the building of any height will "move" flexible absorbing energy and dissipating it away. Unfortunately, outside of big cities homes in Japan and the rest of the world are still built in the traditional way (mortar, brick, concrete drive) that the first faint movement of the earth come down.
As always happens in our beautiful historic architecture major and minor. Thanks to the National Research Council and the Province of Trento has been tested in Japan its long wooden building in the special structural (the project is called Sofia) stronger in the world. Designed in Germany, but developed by CnrIvalsa ( http://www.progettosofie.it/ ) is 7 storeys high and 25 meters, wood Fiemme and endured an earthquake without any problems in the laboratory equal to 7 degrees over a real magnitude of the scale.