Among the numerous cavernous buildings at the former Navy shipyard on Vallejo’s Mare Island is the home of Earthquake Protection Systems. For more than a quarter century, it has been manufacturing ...

Keywords: Quintuple Friction Pendulum Isolator, Spherical Sliding Isolator, Multi-stage Adaptive Behavior, Analytical Model, Computational Model Abstract: This report describes the Quintuple Friction ...

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 ...