Friday, October 22, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
Professors to study Turkish quake
On-site research may benefit many
By Mindie Miller Special to the Kansan
Hardhats are not required for most research at the University of Kansas.
But two civil engineering professors will take extra safety precautions on their six-day journey to northern Turkey, where they will study buildings that survived the Aug. 17 earthquake that killed more than 15,000.
Steven McCabe, chairman of the civil engineering department, and JoAnn Browning, assistant professor of civil engineering, will leave tomorrow and spend several days observing
the damaged reinforced concrete buildings. The earthquake registered a 7.4 on the Richter scale.
"We'll have hardhats, and we'll be careful," McCabe said. "We're not risking life and limb."
The goal of this research is to minimize future earthquake-related fatalities. To that end, McCabe said that he and Brownning would examine buildings that were damaged only moderately so they could determine why those buildings withstood the earthquake while others collapsed.
"My expectation is that we will see problems in connections, where one element pulled loose from another. That's a recipe for real problems," he said.
McCabe said he and Browning
would document their observations with photographs and videos, which could then be shared with colleagues and students.
"A lot of this you can take back to the lab and look at and have students look at," McCabe said. "It's like a 'picture speaks a thousand words' kind of thing."
If these pictures tell engineers how to build safer buildings in earthquake regions, then thousands of people could benefit. The building technology generated could be used in tornado regions and other places where buildings also are exposed to a sudden force. McCabe said.
"The lessons you can learn from this are broadly applicable," McCabe said. "The loss of life in the Oklahoma City
bombing would have been significantly less if that building had been designed with earthquake provisions in mind."
The two received funds for the visit from their department and the Office of International Programs.
Browning said she was interested in mapping damage patterns in relation to the fault area to determine relationships between motion and damage.
In Turkey, McCabe she would pay special attention to how well the reinforcing steel anchored buildings.
"You can do simulations in the lab and computer based experiments," McCabe said. "But until you see the effects of an actual earthquake, you're always guessing."
Edited by Ronnie Wachter
Learning about gun violence
Destiny Cox, B, listens as Lexi Janssen, Lee's Summit, Mo., junior, reads a book called Guns to a group of children from the Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence. Janssen and other University of Kansas students from WAVE, Working Against Violence Everywhere, made the presentations as part of National Day of Concern Against Gun Violence. According to statistics WAVE members shared, 16 children are killed with guns each day in the United States. WAVE members also distributed pledges to the children that advocated gun safety and violence prevention. Photo by Roger Nomer/KANSAN
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