AS earthquakes cause damage to built structures and threaten human lives, there is a need to bolster structural safety to accommodate the wave energy that travels through Earth’s layers, during the natural disaster.
Seeing the need, a group of researchers from the Faculty of Engineering of Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) has invented the Structural Vibration Absorber, an innovation to absorb the vibration caused by earthquakes.
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