Retrofit plan to ride out quake at Cal stadium
Below is an exerpt of an article on the University of California Berkeley Stadium written by Caroyln Jones for the San Francisco Chronicle
Thursday, September 25, 2008
(09-24) 19:40 PDT — Seismic engineers apparently have solved one of the world’s great retrofit puzzles: how to keep UC Berkeley’s Memorial Stadium from crumbling into a pile of concrete rubble during a major earthquake. It took decades of research, experimentation and head-scratching, but a team of San Francisco engineers says it has found a way to save the beloved landmark in Strawberry Canyon, which straddles the state’s most dangerous earthquake fault.
“The blocks might twist and wiggle, but they should retain their structural integrity,” said Loring Wyllie, a structural engineer at Degenkolb Engineers in San Francisco who reviewed Friedman’s plan. “It’ll be like a ship at sea. It might move a little, but the stadium’s a few inches off now anyway.”
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