Japan News July 21 News Service responsible for the construction of Tokyo Sky Tree Obayashi and Nikken Sekkei Company, yesterday issued a 311 tree sky tower when the earthquake on the image. The height of the tower when the building is 500 meters. After 5 earthquake, the staff no one was injured, and no damage to the tower. The reason is so constructed that mimic the way the Japanese pagoda building.
The afternoon of March 11, the day, building height of approximately 495 meters. At that time many workers in the top of the tower construction. Who suddenly issued from the tower a wonderful sound. According to staff at the scene of representation, this sounds like a kind of crying, whining creak of the ring. Gradually around the tower began to shake, wobble of the large and even some people can not stand. The workers did not want to stop watching shaking means, so we went to the stairs from the emergency shelter on the ground. According to the presence of staff, said at the top of the tower may have occurred more than six meters of rock. However, there are five or so that day Tokyo earthquake, Tokyo Tower spire bent in many places there are injuries. But eventually the sky no one was injured trees, but after a staff check to make sure, too, did not find any damage.
Tokyo Sky Tree, according to the publicity department staff said, and now experts predict earthquake prediction to a variety of large earthquakes have been envisaged in the design. In addition, Japan's ancient buildings earthquake-resistant ability, especially the five-story pagoda's ancient architecture. So the sky tree design with reference to five-tower structure. Five towers center tower is characterized by a "heart pillar" is through the center of the tower to the top of the tower from the ground a pole. The pillar in the event of an earthquake, can reduce about 50% of the vibration.
Five-story pagoda is a pagoda, a relic of the ancient stupa for worship. Most of Japan's five-story pagoda is wooden, and has a very complex internal structure, its main purpose is to shock. It is said that the center of the tower columns and other internal structure of the heart does not contact with each other. In order to study that theory, researchers reproduce the tower model to study why there is such a strong seismic capability, but the principle is still a mystery until now.
Renhe Temple in Kyoto
(google translate)
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