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Article: 'Invisibility cloak' to protect buildings from earthquakes.
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- Asian News International
- Article date:
- July 21, 2009
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Byline: ANI
Washington, July 21 (ANI): A new research by scientists at the University of Liverpool has shown it is possible to develop an 'invisibility cloak' to protect buildings from earthquakes.
Sebastien Guenneau, from the University's Department of Mathematics, developed the technology with Stefan Enoch and Mohamed Farhat from the Fresnel Institute (CNRS) in Marseilles.
The seismic waves produced by earthquakes include body waves which travel through the earth and surface waves which travel across it.
The new technology controls the path of surface waves which are the most damaging and responsible for much of the destruction which ...