There's a whole lot of shakin' going on at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR).
UNR's seismic-simulation facility became the largest in the United States and second largest in the world this week with an expansion that included moving three new 27-ton shake table tops into the school's new Earthquake Engineering Laboratory.
“This facility is very exciting for us because it enables us to test things we haven't been able to test before,” said David Sanders, a civil engineering professor at UNR.
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