Philip Oldfield
@SustainableTall • 69,509 subscribers
Head of School of Built Environment at UNSW Sydney and Prof of Architecture. Writer, researcher & teacher, tall buildings, housing, embodied carbon, cities
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To help earthquake-proof skyscrapers you don’t necessarily need to add more concrete… Instead you can add damping systems to allow the structure to flex in earthquakes. These convert any movement to heat in silicone oil in the damper. Video via Laibin Seismic
Philip Oldfield62,555 views • 10 months ago
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