Vietnamese students win international award for earthquake-resistant house design

Using only wood, glue, and elastic bands, a group of students designed a 7-story earthquake-resistant house model that can withstand earthquakes of about 8 on the Richter scale.

At the 13th Earthquake Resistant House Design Competition (IDEERS) held in Taiwan (from September 12 to 15, 2013), Duy Tan University (Da Nang) won the Third Prize and the Encouragement Prize.

Duy Tan University (Da Nang) student group won IDEERS award in Taiwan
(Photo: Youth)

This is a prestigious international competition sponsored by the British Council, aiming to help people cope with and minimize damage from earthquakes. This competition had 99 teams from many different countries participating.

In 6 hours, with only wood, glue, and elastic bands, a group of students from the Faculty of Construction (Duy Tan University) designed a 7-story earthquake-resistant house model, which can withstand earthquake aftershocks as specified by the organizers and is capable of withstanding earthquakes of about 8 on the Richter scale.

Last year, Duy Tan University won an encouragement prize from this competition with a model that has a flexible structure in the direction of vibration, is elastic, has good load-bearing capacity, and has the characteristics of Vietnamese bamboo but can only withstand earthquakes of about 6 on the Richter scale./.

According to vov.vn - LT