A seismic isolation system provided by Casper, Phillips & Associates Inc. (CPA) has been installed on two quayside container cranes. The crane base anti-seismic isolation system (BASIS) is built on ...

Keywords: Seismic isolation, nuclear power plants, risk analysis, fragility analysis, test specifications. Revision 01: This revision updates the discussion on the derivation of fragility functions ...

Researchers have developed a novel negative-stiffness isolation device that offers a pioneering solution for seismic protection. The device, designed to provide multidirectional negative stiffness and ...

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Howard University professor Claudia Marin-Artieda at the NEES at Buffalo laboratory with her research team and the "Yahoo frame." With 40 servers installed, the frame was shaken with servers in ...

Keywords: Experimental studies. Analytical studies. Base isolation systems. Seismic protection. Power transformers. Tri-axial earthquake simulator testing. Seismic isolation. Base displacement.

A team led by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency has concluded a series of large-scale demonstration tests for an innovative new floating seismic isolation system intended for pairing with small modular ...

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 ...