SMA Re-centering devices for seismic isolation of civil structures

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4330, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 238-249

  Dolce, Mauro ^a   Cardone, Donatello ^a   Marnetto, Roberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b TIS Tecniche Idraulico Stradali SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Base isolation; Energy dissipation capacity; Equivalent damping; Experimental testing; Passive seismic control; Re centering capacity; Release test; Shape memory alloys; Superelasticity

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; DURABILITY; ELASTICITY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; SEISMOLOGY; STRAIN; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

CIVIL STRUCTURES; SUPERELASTICITY;

SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

EID: 0034773479     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.434123     Document Type: Article

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