Keywords: XY-friction pendulum (XY-FP) bearings. Seismic isolation. Truss-bridge models. Numerical analyses. Harmonic simulations. Earthquake simulations. Flat sliding (FS) bearings. Seismic ...
Keywords: Uplift-restraint isolation systems. Seismic isolation. Friction pendulum isolator. XY-FP isolator. Behavior. Experimental tests. Steel-frame models. Uplift ...
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 ...