Shake-table Testing
The best way to do it is to put the structure on a shake-table that simulates the seismic loading and watch what may happen next (if you have no time to stand out in the field and wait for a real earthquake to strike, of course). The earliest such experiments were performed more than a century ago
Read more about this topic: Earthquake Simulation
Famous quotes containing the word testing:
“Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)