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San Francisco

- Structure: Transamerica Pyramid

Description/adaptation:

skyscrapers

- Glass windows 4 thousand, Concrete


- 1 foot top structure end to end
- The higher you are the more whip
- Pyramid Shape (triangles historically most stable shape structure)
- Steel struct
- Steel and concrete base underneath the ground
- Steel wrapped around 30,000tons of concrete, truske
- Skeleton (framework) steel bars frame
- Deep foundations

Inside

- Elevator shaft
- When feels an earthquake will stop and take you to the nearest floor

Bridges

- Foundations 20 metres deep


- 150000 tons
- Solid Concrete blocks that anchor the cables
- Steel wire cable made up of smaller cables

Sensors
- Creet meter
- Tells how much tension is building up
- Is a cable, measured how much distance in the cable has been pulled

The old bay bridge

- Not very flexible

New one
- Central cables - stronger
- 28 segments if one thing happens to one section
- Hollow steel beams in the middle of the bridge
- The towers, vertical rise segments
- Crumple zone, on deck and towers

Homes - residents

- Extreme deep foundation hammer until they hit rock bottom


- Clusters of piling
- Concrete
- Concrete tie together to concrete beams
- Concrete mat
- Rock solid p
- Increase surface area

- Liquefaction - the process of making something, especially a gas, liquid.

Subways, tunnels

Cable car
- Steel cable
- Power fll clamp
- Driver scan pick up and let go of the cables

Drill through the hills


- Built in segments to make it flexible
- Concrete then,
- Rubber steel mesh then layer of concrete

Earthquakes
- wildfires
- Free flowing gas

Fresh water
- San Tao creek
- A damp into san Andreas fault
- “The crystal spring damp”
- Concrete moza - segments
- Twinpeaks -to fight fire, fire hydrants

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