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Evangelos Sapountzakis, Georgios Florakis and Konstantinos Kapasakalis
This paper investigates the implementation of supplemental vibration control systems (VCS) in base isolated (BI) structures, to improve their dynamic performance. More specifically, the aim of the VCS is to reduce the base displacement demand of BI struc...
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Dietlinde Köber, Felix Weber, Eugen Lozinca and Viorel Popa
Practical engineers should gain confidence in base isolation as an alternative to stiffening, a possible design approach for new as well as for existing buildings even under rare seismic conditions (in large corner period areas and for pulse-type seismic...
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Tae-Myung Shin and Byung-Chan Lee
The results can be applicable to the plant equipment design for seismic enhancement.
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Mattia Marini, Luca Maria Foresi, Viviana Barbagallo, Michelangelo Bisconti, Agata Di Stefano, Giovanni Muttoni and Ivan Martini
A c. 31 m thick section straddling the fossil find of an Early Pliocene baleen whale (?Brunella?, hereafter), made in 2007 in the sedimentary fill of the Middle Ombrone Basin of Tuscany, is investigated for depositional age and environment combining pala...
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Francesco Esposito, Mario Argenziano, Diana Faiella and Elena Mele
This paper reports a study on the Intermediate Isolation System (IIS) applied to existing buildings. This kind of application is particularly suitable when a vertical addition is planned for buildings in seismic zones; in such a case, an isolation system...
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Laura Ragni, Fabio Micozzi, Laura Gioiella, Maria Gabriella Castellano, Samuele Infanti and Andrea Dall?Asta
The seismic response of base-isolated structures is notably influenced by mechanical properties of isolation devices due to their essential role in structural behavior. Consequently, the variability of such properties should be accounted for in the desig...
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Lucas Mazzon, Giada Frappa and Margherita Pauletta
A case study where a tuned mass damper (TMD) was installed at the top of a five-story reinforced concrete (RC) building is presented. The aim of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of the TMD in changing the structural behavior of medium-rise ...
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Fotios Katimertzopoulos, Charis Vlados and Theodore Koutroukis
The primary aim of this paper is to identify key similarities and differences in the conceptualization of culture across the major theories of regional socioeconomic science, including economic, business, administrative, social, cultural and political di...
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Zoltán Szabó and Vilmos Bilicki
Due to the proliferation of large language models (LLMs) and their widespread use in applications such as ChatGPT, there has been a significant increase in interest in AI over the past year. Multiple researchers have raised the question: how will AI be a...
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Marco Furinghetti, Igor Lanese and Alberto Pavese
In this research work the outcomes of a hybrid experimental campaign are analyzed, in order to evaluate the influence of aftershock events on the frictional response of sliding-based isolation devices for buildings. To achieve this, a hybrid testing fram...
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