英语翻译Last December’s earthquakes in the Iranian city of Bam t

英语翻译
Last December’s earthquakes in the Iranian city of Bam took a huge death toll-roughly 40,000 people-largely because of the collapse of thousands of mud-brick buildings.If a group of researchers in India are successful,the next earthquake might not be as destructive.British and Indian engineers are developing earthquake-proof housing using a cheap,universal material:bamboo.
They designed a model house built around waterproof bamboo-sheet roofing and bamboo-reinforced concrete walls.To test the structure,the engineers,sponsored by the U.K.Department of International Development,took it to the Earthquake Engineering and Vibration Research Centre in Bangalore,which has a state-of-the–art earthquake simulator(模拟装置).The researchers shook the house with five successive 30-second pulses,being equal to 7.8 on the Richter(里氏) scale.The simulation was more than 10 times as violent as the Bam earthquake,yet the house emerged undamaged.“We didn’t even crack the paint,” says engineer Paul Follett,of Britain’s Timber Research and Development Association.
By some estimates,more than a billion people already live in bamboo structures.The innovation lies in developing ways to exploit bamboo’s spring.Easily pre-built,fire resistant,and far lighter than steel,bamboo-based structures could be assembled in three weeks and last 50 years.At five dollars a square foot,they would last roughly half as much as brick-and-block constructions.Follett says the project will follow an “open source” model:“Whatever is developed is freely available for the common good.”

去年12月的地震在伊朗城市巴姆发生了巨大的死亡人数-大约4 .0万人-主要是因为崩溃,数以千计的泥砖房.如果一组研究人员在印度获得成功,未来地震可能不会像破坏性的.英国和印度的工程师正在开发抗震房屋使用廉价,万能材料：竹.
他们设计了一个模型,周围的房子建防水竹板屋面和竹子-钢筋混凝土墙壁.测试结构,工程师,赞助由英国国际发展部,把它向地震工程与振动研究中心,在班加罗尔,其中有一个国家- - -艺术的地震模拟器（模拟装置）.研究人员震惊的房子5连续30秒的脉搏,正在等于7.8就里（里氏）规模.模拟演习的10倍以上的暴力作为巴姆地震,但众议院中出现的损坏.“我们甚至没有裂纹漆,说：”工程师保罗follett ,英国的木材研究和发展协会.
有人估计,超过10亿人已经住在竹结构.创新,关键在发展的方式利用竹子的春天.很容易预先建立的,耐火,远远轻于钢,竹为基础的结构,可组装在3个星期内,并在过去50年.在5美元平方英尺,他们将去年大约有一半之多砖和块建设.follett说,该项目将按照“开放原始码”的模式：“无论是发达国家,是免费提供的为共同利益” .