Isolators had to be analyzed as part of the design for the state’s Emergency Operations Center near Olympia. Owners ranging from public agencies to financial institutions and research facilities have ...

Render of the Ariake Arena being built for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics. The arena features a total of 44 seismic isolating bearings, of three different varieties. (Courtesy Bridgestone) ...

Keywords: Earthquakes, base isolation, FEMA P695, collapse studies, ASCE7-05, moat walls, pounding Abstract: This study investigates the pounding phenomenon in base isolated buildings by conducting ...

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 ...

The performance of a well-designed layer of sand, geo-grid, geo-textiles and composites like layer of sand mixed with shredded tyre (rubber) as low-cost base isolators is studied in shake table tests ...

The Bay Area will never forget how many lives were lost and how much damage was done during the magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake in October 1989. Since then, the technology industry has taken on ...