Behaviour of the double concave Friction Pendulum bearing

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1403-1424

  Fenz, Daniel M ^a   Constantinou, Michael C ^a  

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

Author keywords

Double concave Friction Pendulum bearing; Seismic isolation

Indexed keywords

FRICTION; LOADS (FORCES); STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

COEFFICIENTS OF FRICTION; DOUBLE CONCAVE FRICTION PENDULUM BEARING; RADII OF CURVATURE; SEISMIC ISOLATION; SLIDING SURFACES;

BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL);

BEARING CAPACITY; FRICTION; NUMERICAL METHOD; SEISMIC ISOLATION; SLIDING; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33748655635     PISSN: 00988847     EISSN: 10969845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eqe.589     Document Type: Article

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