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ith its one-of-a-kind facilities, the Englekirk Structural Engineering Center at the University of California, San Diego was a unique project for PSSI. The Center is equipped with the world's first outdoor shake table adjacent to the country's largest soil-structure interaction facility, allowing researchers to perform dynamic earthquake safety tests on full-scale structural systems – tests that have never been possible before. The Center's blast simulator will be used to study the effects of bomb blasts and test new technologies to harden buildings against terrorist bomb attacks.
