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Flavia Bustos, Jorge Hinojosa and Víctor Tuninetti
The computational modeling of hysteretic dampers is a powerful tool for design, allowing us to predict and optimize damper performance. In this research, a numerical model, based on Chaboche?s nonlinear kinematic hardening constitutive law, was implement...
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Yuanfeng Wang, Lei Pan, Weitao Niu, Kai Li and Kun Guo
A reasonable material hysteretic constitutive model has a significant influence on the seismic simulation results of structures. To better describe the hysteresis seismic performance of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP)-constrained concrete, a new modified ...
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Guanjie Kong, Ziyu Wang and Youfa Yang
In view of the weak isolation and shock absorption effect of ordinary isolation bearings at present, a new track damping negative-stiffness device was designed based on the principle of negative stiffness. The principle of negative stiffness was applied ...
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Gabriele Guerrini, Stylianos Kallioras, Stefano Bracchi, Francesco Graziotti and Andrea Penna
This paper discusses different formulations for calculating earthquake-induced displacement demands to be associated with nonlinear static analysis procedures for the assessment of masonry structures. Focus is placed on systems with fundamental periods b...
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Shouping Shang and Zhen Wang
Damping is one of the important issues related to isolated structures, including the newly proposed low-cost spring-asphalt isolation system. In this study, the damping properties of the system in terms of displacement dependence, frequency dependence an...
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Seungkyung Kye and Hyung-Jo Jung
Electromagnetic dampers are emerging as alternatives to conventional dampers applied to stay cables of bridges because they can reduce maintenance costs and allow vibration monitoring owing to their permanent driving characteristics and self-generation f...
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Deyi Xu, Yang Yang and Zongping Chen
Due to the advantage of saving indoor space, a special-shaped column frame attracted more attention of the engineers and researchers. This paper presented a quasi-static cyclic loading experiment of six specimens of reinforced concrete (RC) L-shaped colu...
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Bin Chi, Xu Yang, Fenglai Wang, Zhiming Zhang and Yuhu Quan
In recent years, traditional masonry structures have been widely used in rural areas of China. However, they were found to have a poor seismic performance during earthquakes. In this study, a new prestressing technology was proposed and described in deta...
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Bruno Palazzo, Paolo Castaldo and Ivana Marino
A new replaceable hysteretic damper to better control seismic building damage, consisting of two or more adjacent steel vertical elements connected to each other with continuous mild/low strength steel shear links, is proposed and investigated in this pa...
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Awaludin A.,Hirai T.,Sasaki Y.,Hayashikawa T.,Oikawa A.
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The effects of pretension in bolts on hysteretic response of timber joints exposed to a bending had been reported by the authors, but the cyclic tests were carried out at small displacement level which might not be applicable for earthquake-resistance de...
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