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- Title
Seismic isolation: Early history.
- Authors
Makris, Nicos
- Abstract
Summary: Seismic isolation or "aseismic base isolation" is an earthquake protection strategy that aims to uncouple the motion of a structure from the ground shaking and thereby reduce structural forces. A most effective and successful seismic protection technology, seismic isolation, is by now a mature and viable alternative to traditional capacity design and has been implemented in numerous bridges, buildings, and other special structures worldwide. This paper records the origins and early developments (up to the early 1990s) of seismic isolation.
- Subjects
EARTHQUAKE resistant design; SEISMIC response; EFFECT of earthquakes on buildings; STRUCTURAL analysis (Engineering); EFFECT of earthquakes on bridges
- Publication
Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 2019, Vol 48, Issue 2, p269
- ISSN
0098-8847
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/eqe.3124