This paper presents experimental investigations on the feasibility of using a sand-rubber
deformable granular layer as a low-cost seismic isolation strategy for developing countries …

This study presents a large-scale shaking table investigation aimed at the development of a
dual, low-cost hybrid design approach for the reduction of seismic damage in developing …

Forward-directivity effects create distinct velocity pulse in the fault-normal direction of near-
fault ground motions. It has been shown that this pulse period governs the structural …

This work studies the dynamics of the Negative Stiffness Bilinear Elastic (NSBE) oscillator.
Such a mathematical idealization can be used to describe deformable rocking systems …

The paper focuses on the detailed analysis of the dynamic characterisation of polyurethane
to evaluate the effects of polyurethane injections into soil with the aim of geotechnical …

Seismic design tools are based on surrogate models of the designed structure and the
responses of those surrogates to earthquake ground motions. To design symmetric flexible …

Seismic isolation of nuclear power plants is in its infancy, with only a small number of
applications worldwide. This outcome is due in part to the construction of only a small …

This paper focuses on the large-scale experimental investigation of a novel, highly efficient,
low-cost and easily constructible seismic isolation system, defined as PVC-Rollers …

This study shows the modelling of the dynamic properties of sand-polyurethane composite
materials through the Artificial Neural Network method (ANN). Such properties are relevant …

We propose a set of equations for preliminary risk‐targeted seismic design of structures
base‐isolated using single friction pendulum (SFP) bearings. The equations offer statistical …