Experimental and analytical studies on Concave Sliding Surface devices have underlined that the hysteretic characteristics under bi-directional input motion are highly no [...]

A general seismic event can be considered as the superposition of two individual time histories of ground acceleration, acting simultaneously at the base of a structural [...]

The frictional response of Concave Surface Slider (CSS) devices has been more and more investigated both experimentally and numerically. These isolators have shown many a [...]

Most existent bridges do not reflect the recent earthquake design rules particularly for the aspects related to the definition of the seismic input, the energy dissipatio [...]

Dealing with seismic demands at life safety and collapse prevention limit states implies the necessity of explicitly considering the nonlinear behavior of structures. The [...]

Elastomeric bearings are one of the most commonly used seismic isolators, whose considerably grown number of applications in recent years witnesses the confidence in seis [...]

This paper present two models of the EUCENTRE TREESLab high performance uni-axial shake table based on their numerical implementation using the Matlab system-modeling pac [...]