Experimental study of bridge seismic sliding isolation systems

Engineering Structures

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 301-310

  Tsopelas, P ^a   Constantinou, M C ^a   Okamoto, S ^b   Fujii, S ^b   Ozaki, D ^b  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

^b TAISEI CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bridges; Earthquakes; Fluid dampers; Seismic isolation; Shaking table; Sliding bearings; Testing

Indexed keywords

BRIDGE; DAMPING; SEISMIC ISOLATION; SEISMIC RESPONSE;

EID: 0029752279     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0141-0296(95)00147-6     Document Type: Article

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