Base isolation has emerged as one of the most effective high-tech strategies for protecting
infrastructure under seismic loading. This review paper discusses the historical development …

The flag-shaped hysteretic behavior of Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) can be conveniently
used for developing efficient isolation systems, providing energy dissipation without implying …

Earthquake Seismic isolation plays an important role in achieving sustainable earthquake
resilience communities. Seismic isolation method is a justified, mature, and reliable …

An adequate seismic protection of steel storage tanks of industrial, chemical and
petrochemical plants is essential since potential consequences of failures, besides the …

Concave surface sliders (CSSs) are considered as an effective solution for retrofitting
adjacent buildings irregular in plan that could undergo significant seismic pounding due to …

The re-centering capability represents a fundamental property of any effective isolation
system. Indeed, a potential residual displacement after an earthquake, besides affecting the …

The breakaway friction coefficient of curved surface sliders (CSSs) governs the transition
between the sticking and the sliding behavior of the isolators, and hence affects the …

The manuscript deals with a study on the performance/reliability analysis of steel hysteretic
dampers designed for the seismic retrofit of RC frame structures at the Basic Design …

Being an efficient technique for mitigating the seismic response of structures, base isolation
is widely used in earthquake engineering practice. The sliding hydromagnetic bearing is …

This paper presents the results of an extensive parametric study aimed at investigating the
influence of residual displacements on the design displacement of spherical friction-based …