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Flavia Bustos, Jorge Hinojosa and Víctor Tuninetti
The computational modeling of hysteretic dampers is a powerful tool for design, allowing us to predict and optimize damper performance. In this research, a numerical model, based on Chaboche?s nonlinear kinematic hardening constitutive law, was implement...
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Jiulin Li, Qingquan Li, Qingzhou Mao and Hao Xu
Steel structures that benefit from having lightweight, ductility, and seismic behaviors are capable of improving the overall performance of civil engineering in environmental protection, project quality, process management, and ease of construction, maki...
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Hui Pang, Wen Xu, Junwu Dai and Tao Jiang
Seismic isolation is a technique that has been widely used around the world to decouple the superstructure from the ground motions during earthquakes. However, the attention of seismic isolation is mostly focused on the protection of the building structu...
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Carolyn D. Ruppel, Thomas C. Weber, Erica R. Staaterman, Stanley J. Labak and Patrick E. Hart
Marine acoustic sources are widely used for geophysical imaging, oceanographic sensing, and communicating with and tracking objects or robotic vehicles in the water column. Under the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act and similar regulations in several ot...
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Tao Yang, Shuailei Liu, Shengyuan Xiong, Yang Liu, Bo Liu and Binbin Li
To reduce the effects of earthquakes on the ancient Small Wild Goose Pagoda, a shape memory alloy-suspension pendulum damping system (SMA-SPDS) is developed by combining superelastic SMAs with damping pendulum theory. A MATLAB/Simulink simulation model o...
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Jizhong Huang, Ruoyu Zhang, Qingyang Luo, Xiuwei Guo and Meigen Cao
In this paper, the mechanical model of grotto?eave system with cable inerter viscous damper (CIVD) is established, and the vibration control equations are established. Firstly, the stochastic response is carried out, and the optimization design of design...
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Ahmed Elgamal and Nissreen Elfaris
This paper investigates the effects of seismic loads on tunnels in an attempt to provide better protection from earthquake shaking. Dynamic analysis of angular offset tunnels was performed, and the tunnels? behavior under earthquake shaking and their res...
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Alexandros Tsipianitis and Yiannis Tsompanakis
Base isolation of liquid storage tanks has proven to be an efficient seismic protection measure, leading to a drastic reduction of a superstructure?s distress. However, many such tanks are located near seismic tectonic faults, which generate strong pulse...
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Praveen Kumar Gupta, Goutam Ghosh, Virendra Kumar, Prabhu Paramasivam and Seshathiri Dhanasekaran
Lead Rubber Bearings (LRBs) represent one of the most widely employed devices for the seismic protection of structures. However, the effectiveness of the same in the case of curved bridges has not been judged well because of the complexity involved in cu...
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Beatrice Faggiano, Giacomo Iovane, Andrea Gaspari, Eric Fournely, AbdelHamid Bouchair, Raffaele Landolfo and Maurizio Piazza
Italy is located in a very active seismic zone, and many earthquakes have marked the country, some of them in the recent past. In order to take adequate measures of seismic prevention and protection, in the last decades, the Italian Civil Protection Depa...
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