Keywords: XY-friction pendulum (XY-FP) bearings. Seismic isolation. Truss-bridge models. Numerical analyses. Harmonic simulations. Earthquake simulations. Flat sliding (FS) bearings. Seismic ...
At Sabiha Gökçen Airport in Istanbul, Arup used triple friction pendulum devices to build the world’s largest seismically isolated building, The recent earthquake in Chile was much less damaging than ...
Engineers designing the Giant Magellan Telescope celebrated the feat of having their innovative seismic protection design validated by an independent review panel. This group of experts in seismic ...