UCLA engineers develop faster method to detect bacterial contamination in coastal waters
Engineers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have sped up the process of analyzing bacterial concentrations to under one hour, through the development of a new in-field, rapid-detection method.
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Engineering Researcher Part of National Team Investigating Haiti Earthquake
Civil engineering professor and earthquake expert Brady Cox will travel to Haiti Saturday, Jan. 30, as part of a national team of engineers who will study the effects of the massive earthquake that struck the small Caribbean nation on Jan.
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Paper on "tsunami resistant" houses wins the Institution of Civil Engineers Bill Curtin prize
A paper by Dr Indrasenan Thusyanthan, former Lecturer in the University of Cambridge Geotechnical Research Group and Dr Gopal Madabhushi, Reader in Geotechnical Engineering, has won the Bill Curtin prize awarded by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) for the Best Paper in the 'ICE Civil Engineering' magazine.
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Engineers Help Secure California Highways and Roads
Sprays of dirt flew out of a soil box that held a retaining wall as it violently shook from a simulated 7.4 magnitude earthquake. The wall was put to test recently by engineers at the UC San Diego Englekirk Structural Engineering Center, which has the largest outdoor shake table in the United States.
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How tech is helping to build better buildings
Advances in sensors, concrete, nanotech are making structures – from bridges to office towers – safer, stronger and better looking.
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Walking and clean air
A new study done for the metropolitan area of Vancouver, British Columbia (host of the 2010 Winter Olympics) , compares neighborhoods' "walkability"—the degree of ease for walking—with local levels of pollution, and reveals some interesting findings.
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EPA’s new green parking lot allows scientists to study permeable surfaces that may help the environment
EPA is testing a variety of different permeable pavement materials and rain gardens in the parking lot at the agency's Edison, N.J. facility, which houses offices and its laboratory. Most major sources of pollution going into our waterways are well-controlled, but pollution runoff from hard surfaces remains a complicated problem.
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Researchers Testing Nanotech for Hazardous Waste Cleanups
Researchers are exploring whether nanoscale materials -- so named because they are as small as 1/100,000 the width of a human hair -- can be cleanup assets.
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Nanostructured Coatings Enhance Resistance of Surfaces against Corrosion
The researchers at Tarbiat Modares University succeeded in increasing the resistance of steel to corrosion using nanometric layers.
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Researchers at Tech developing a new type of concrete from ‘fly ash’
The researchers, led by Erez Allouche, an assistant professor of civil engineering and associate director of the Trenchless Technology Center, and Sven Eklund, an assistant professor of chemistry, are working with a group of students to create a geopolymer concrete, or GPC, made from a waste byproduct produced by coal-fired power plants called "fly ash."
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