Seismic Isolation, Energy Dissipation and Active Vibration Control of Structures

Applications and recent studies on seismic isolation in Italy.- State of the Art in Application of Seismic Isolation and Energy Dissipation in Turkey.- Seismic isolation applications in Romania.- Efforts toward International Harmonization of Seismic Isolation Design Code and Current Status in Japan.- Recent development and application on seismic isolation, energy dissipation and vibration control in China.- Recent Developments and Applications of Seismic Isolation in North America.- Seismic Isolation in Chile: An opportunity for Model Codes Calibration.- Optimization as a tool for seismic protection of structures.- Near-fault earthquake ground motion and seismic isolation design.- Origin of seismicity in Italy as a clue for seismic hazard.- Seismic Isolation Design for Achieving Resilient Structures.- Mechanical properties of thick rubber bearing used in over-track buildings.- Bidirectional Model for Shear Behavior of High Damping Rubber Bearings.- Development of an Improved Deformation History Integral Type Hysteresis Model for High-Damping Rubber Bearings.- Application of Isolation in Large Scale Infrastructure in Cold Region in China.- Experimental and analytical investigation of variable curvature and friction pendulum isolator.- Experimental Investigation on Hysteretic Behavior of a Double Friction Pendulum and Frictional Heating.- An Experimental Study on the Effects of Different Pendulum Damper Designs on Structural Behavior.- Effect of over-stroke capacity of curved surface sliders on the collapse safety of seismically isolated buildings.- Development of Seismic Isolation and Energy Dissipation in Taiwan –Application, Research and Design.- Crescent Shaped Brace devices to strengthen pinned beam-column connections via semi-rigid CSB joints.- Reliability Based Design Optimization of Damped-Outrigger Timber Structure Using Stochastic Spectral Embedding BasedProbability Density Evolution Method.- RESEARCH ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THETHREE-DIMENSION SEISMIC ISOLATION SYSTEM FOR LIGHTWEIGHT BUILDINGS.- Numerical Assessment of Ultra-Low Cycle Fatigue Performance of Buckling Restrained Aluminum Shear Yielding Dampers.- Seismic Isolation Design Comparison of Japan, China, USA and Eurocode.- Statistical analysis of rubber compounds material tests for seismic isolation bearings and code provisions comparison.- CODE PROVISIONS ABOUT λ-FACTORS OF HDRBs FOR THE UPPER AND LOWER BOUND ANALYSES: HYSTORICAL REVIEW.- Design of Base-Isolated Building as per Indian Code Provisions and Practices.- Complex Modal Shapes Superposition Response Spectrum Based Design Method for Seismically isolated structures in China.- Hidden pitfalls in Double Curved Surface Sliders (DCSS).- Full scale dynamic tests on concave curved surface sliders: comparison of time history and cyclic sinusoidal tests.- Seismic Isolation of Bridges: Practice-Oriented Considerations.- Effects of Ice and Water and Contamination on Friction Pendulum Bearings.- Structural Response of a Bridge Seismically Isolated with Lead Rubber Bearings Exposed to Low Temperature.- Seismic Design and Performance Assessment of the Post-tensioned Bridge Piers.- Seismic Performance of Isolated Bridges under Extreme Shaking.- The role of an advanced quality system for the control of performance of Lead Rubber Bearings: the case of Puente Industrial de Biobio.- The Bridges on Çanakkale Highway: a huge application of the seismic protection technology in Europe.- Fluid viscous dampers for the 1915 Çanakkale Bridgein Turkey.- APPLICATION OF THE GRADIENT BASED OPTIMIZATIONTO THE STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS WITH THE SUPPLEMENTAL DAMPING DEVICES.- 3-D Seismic Isolation for Operational Level Protection of Critical Electrical and Electronic Control Equipmentfor the Site C Clean Energy Project.- A Comparative Studyon Isolator Modeling Approaches.- Seismic base isolation of a strategic historic masonry building.- Multi-Storey Building Retrofit by ADAS-Equipped Braces.- The effect of nonlinear response of the primary system in nonconventional TMDs.- Isolated Artificial Ground for the Seismic Safety in the Urban Reconstruction of Castelluccio di Norcia.- Numerical application of viscoelastic devices for improving the out-of-plane behaviour of a historic masonry building.- State-of-the-art of Resilience usingbibliometric analysis.- Observed seismic behaviour of base isolation systems in Italy.- Versatile aseismic isolation based on practical applications of advanced materials for sustainable resilience against earthquakes.- Seismic Isolation of the Terminal Core Roof at the Portland International Airport.- Coupling of structural additions for the mitigation of seismic response in existing buildings.- Verification of Actual Displacement Scaled Displacement-control System with High-static-low-dynamic Stiffness and Rotational Inertia for Seismic Isolation.- Improved Structural Serviceability And Seismic Protection By Adaptive Isolators and Dampers.- Preliminary results in the design and testing of earthquake-proof glass-aluminium partition walls.- Preliminary results in the design and testing of earthquake-resistant school furniture.- Experimental seismic response characterisation of brackets for use in ventilated façade systems.- Shake table tests on a new passively controlled system with pulley amplification mechanisms for suspended ceilings.- Advanced Digital Video Analyses to Estimate the Dynamic Behavior for Proper Design of aBase-Isolation System of the Sarcophagus of the Spouses at the National Etruscan.- Seismic protection of the Goddess of Morgantina statue through an innovative base-isolationdevice: validation by shake-table tests.- Base-isolation of a rocking object on a rockingpedestal: response to pulse-type ground motion.- Stepwise Performance Enhancement of Sloped Rolling-type Isolators.- A Shake Table Testing Campaign of Electrical Cabinets.- Effects of the vertical and horizontal acceleration on the seismic response of piping networks.- Seismic vulnerability of pallet storage systems.- A simplified framework to generate fragility functions forin-plane behavior ofgypsum partition walls.- Dynamic Characterization of glazed partition walls by Operational Modal Analysis technique.- Dynamic characterization and damagedetection of a fire-protection piping system.- A Rapid Visual Screening procedure to evaluate seismic risk of non-structural elements in critical facilities.- Comparison of seismic losses associated with traditional/innovative hollow brick and plasterboard internal partitions.- Vibration-based test results for the investigation of the infill masonry wall damage.- Dynamic properties and seismic response of a museum display case with an art object.- EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON CEILING FALL PREVENTION USING NEW MATERIALS.- Shake-Table Tests on an Industrial Steel Rack Isolated with Innovative Modular Devices.- On the use of CLT infills to improve the lateral performance of RC frames.- Required response spectra and acceleration loading histories for seismic assessment of acceleration-sensitive nonstructural elements according to the Italian building code.- Multi-EDP performance assessment of a steel BRBF under ground motion sequences.- Modern Systems for Wind & Seismic Induced Vibrations.- Enhancing Stiffness and/or Damping in Structural Systems with Cellular Shear Walls.- Development of new optimal passive non-detuning Mass Dampers.- Challenges and Detailing Considerations for the Incorporation of Passive Energy Dissipation Systems in Life Science Occupancies.- Seismic Isolation in the US Mission Critical Sector.- The brittlefailure of fluid viscous dampers and the related consequences on the reliability of a medium-rise steel building.- Preliminary numerical analysis of the response of base-isolated SDOF systems constrained by two deformable devices under seismic excitations.- Seismic retrofit of r.c.buildings with base isolation.- Advanced constitutive laws for nonlinearstatic analyses of masonry structures.- Seismic response spectra ofthe 24th August 2016 Amatrice earthquake.- Assessment of the acceleration floor spectra through dynamic identification: the Museum of Bargello in Florence.- Experimental evaluation of the cyclic behaviour of different smooth rebar anchoring layouts.- Dynamic characterization and seismic vulnerability assessment of existing masonry port structures.- Horizontal and vertical BIM interoperability aimed at seismic vulnerability assessment.- Automating the Frequency Domain Decomposition Technique using the Modal Assurance Criterion.