Japan created 'super product' of earthquake specialties

A Japanese textile company recently used special carbon fibers to cope with earthquakes.

Japan is a country located on a geographic area that often occurs earthquakes with great devastating power. One of the dreadful influences must be the 9-magnitude earthquake and deadly tsunami as high as 10 m in 2011 with a total loss of up to 300 billion USD.

It is estimated that there are about 1,500 earthquakes each year in Japan. The continuous earthquake situation greatly affects people's lives.

Every year in Japan, about 1,500 earthquakes occur.(Artwork: Boston.com).

Therefore, many organizations, architects and people here have been looking for creative construction solutions for large buildings to limit or reduce vibration and vibration caused by earthquakes.

Continuous efforts to research and find unique construction methods are the way that Japanese people choose to be able to "live" with earthquakes.

Komatsu Seiren textile company in Japan has developed a very effective type of carbon fiber resistant to earthquakes.

Specifically, architects Kengo Kuma and colleagues used bars made from carbon materials to synthesize experiments for the structure of a showroom in Nomi (in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan).

The strands are extended from the roof top of the building and are fastened to the ground at a specific angle.

Carbon fiber network is a new anti-earthquake method in Japan.

The carbon fiber lines are extremely slender, soft but have high toughness and tensile strength. This creates the power to limit the impact of an earthquake.

"Curtain" prevents earthquakes thanks to special mechanisms

When the ground begins to vibrate, making the building shift left or right, these special ropes pull and hold the building in the opposite direction to prevent earthquake vibrations.

The dense carbon fiber curtain both inside and outside has high stability and helps to limit the horizontal impact of earthquakes.

Not only is it earthquake resistant, these amazing carbon fibers also have the ability to add aesthetics to the building, looking like a soft curtain.

This new anti-earthquake method is said to bring an elegant beauty to the building.

Architect Kuma believes that this material can be applied to structures like wooden buildings that tend to vibrate horizontally.

Instead of using rigid materials such as concrete and steel like most Japanese are using, this new anti-earthquake method is said to bring the beauty of elegance to the building.

Kuma said this is the first time carbon fiber strings have been used to combat earthquakes. This will create a breakthrough in technology to respond to earthquakes in "land of the rising sun".