Experimental evaluation of piecewise exact solution for predicting seismic responses of spherical sliding type isolated structures

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1027-1046

  Tsai, C S ^a   Chiang, Tsu Cheng ^a   Chen, Bo Jen ^b  

^a FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Earthquake Proof Systems Inc   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Base isolation; Exact solution; Friction pendulum system; Sliding system; Structural control

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKES; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS);

BASE ISOLATED STRUCTURES; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; RELATIVE DEFORMATION; SEISMIC RESISTIBILITY;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING;

EID: 21844462376     PISSN: 00988847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eqe.430     Document Type: Article

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