Grade Proof

What materials would I need to make an earthquake proof house?

I’m in 8th grade and my class is making a house for this shake table we have. What ‘household’ materials would you need to make the house shake proof?

Depends on what you mean by “Earthquake Proof”. Logic would suggest anything that is able to bend, flex and deform. There has been some interesting architectural engineering research in California where they have designed “wall fuses”. The best way to build a wall for example, that can withstand an earthquake, without making the wall out of plastic, is to remove anything within the wall that stops it from being able to shift and deform. So instead of infilling walls, which gives them huge amounts of load support, they stack up discs within the wall that can move, if the earthquake breaks some of them, just like fuses they can be replaced.

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