Recent Progress of Application of Modern Anti-Seismic Systems in Europe - Part 1: Seismic Isolation

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As witnessed by the state-of-the-art papers presented at the 10th World Conference on Seismic Isolation, Energy Dissipation and Active Vibrations Control of Structures (Istanbul, Turkey, May 27-31, 2007) and by more recent information, there are already well over 8,000 structures in the world protected by seismic isolation (SI) and other modern seismic vibration passive control (SVPC) systems. Their number is increasing everywhere more and more. The conclusive influence of earthquake experience and availability and features of the design rules used on the extension of application of the SVPC systems has been confirmed. Fifth at worldwide level for the number of applications (after Japan, the P.R. China, the Russian Federation and the USA) and first in the European Union remains Italy, at least for those of SI to buildings. Italy is now followed by Taiwan, New Zealand, Armenia, Turkey, Mexico, South Korea and Canada. However, important applications also began in other European countries, namely in Greece, Portugal, Cyprus and Macedonia; many of them make use of SVPC devices manufactured in Italy or of Italian designs. Italian devices have also been installed in several other countries. Finally, as regards Europe, applications of the SVPC systems are going on in France: in the mainland for nuclear plants and in the Martinique island for civil buildings. This paper provides details on the use of SI in Italy and the other European countries (including the entire Russian Federation), by stressing the most relevant recent applications, while a separate paper, presented in Session S05-02, deals with that of the other SVPC techniques.

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