Keywords: XY-friction pendulum (XY-FP) bearings. Seismic isolation. Truss-bridge models. Numerical analyses. Harmonic simulations. Earthquake simulations. Flat sliding (FS) bearings. Seismic ...

Keywords: Seismic isolation, triple friction pendulum bearing, modeling, heating effects, OpenSees Abstract: This report presents and verifies a revised model of the behavior of triple friction ...

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 ...

Among the numerous cavernous buildings at the former Navy shipyard on Vallejo’s Mare Island is the home of Earthquake Protection Systems. For more than a quarter century, it has been manufacturing ...