The Most Effective Earthquake Resistant Base Material

Overview

There are thousands of earthquakes around the world every single day, they cause mass destruction and major loss of lives and property. This project can help reduce the impact of these catastrophic natural phenomena. Earthquakes pose a large global threat. Earthquakes’ dangers cause damage not only to nearby buildings, but the surrounding area’s ecosystem and environment altogether. With engineering solutions such as earthquake resistant base materials, we can reduce their impacts. This project will help to find which base material is the most earthquake resistant. We observed how much the structures moved and whether they stayed standing during and after the shaking as well as their time to fall and how much magnitude each base along with the plastic container could withstand. The results showed that the slime base performed the best overall. Its soft and stretchy texture along with its stickiness and low density helped absorb most of the kinetic energy from the seismic waves, keeping the structure stable and sticking the plastic container to it. The clay base did not absorb much energy, while the coir base provided some flexibility but was less effective than slime. The control base showed the most movement and least resistance to shaking.In conclusion, slime proved to be the most effective earthquake-resistant base among those tested. Its flexibility and ability to absorb energy helped protect the structure better than the other materials. These findings suggest that flexible materials like slime could inspire new designs for earthquake-resistant foundations in the future.

Competition history

• CSEF 2026 Applied Mechanics (Junior Division) · Entry J-02-29

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