Development and characterization of a magnetorheological elastomer based adaptive seismic isolator

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Li, Yancheng ^a   Li, Jianchun ^a   Li, Weihua ^b   Samali, Bijan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; BASE ISOLATION; BASE ISOLATION SYSTEMS; CYCLING LOADING; EXPERIMENTAL TESTING; FAR-FIELD; FIELD SENSITIVES; LAMINATED STRUCTURES; LATERAL STIFFNESS; MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL ELASTOMERS; MATERIAL PROPERTY; NEAR-FIELD EARTHQUAKES; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; REAL TIME; SEISMIC ISOLATOR; SHAKE TABLE; STRUCTURAL CONTROL;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; ELASTOMERS; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

SEISMIC DESIGN;

EID: 84874128127     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/22/3/035005     Document Type: Article

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