Links to the sites in the area of passive and active structural control.
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- Building Research Institute (BRI)of Japan Information from Japan's major national research institution carrying out earthquake engineering and structural control research in buildings.
- BFRL Publications - base isolation Building and Fire Research Laboratory of NIST draft guidelines for testing of base isolation systems.
- Structural Control Proceedings Proceedings of the 1994 First World Conference on Structural Control and of the two preceding workshops.
- Structural Dynamics - Seismic Response Control Laboratory at Duke University Research information on semi active vibration control methods and smart damping, magnetorheological, and electrorheological devices.
- Dynamic Analysis of Base-Isolation Highway Bridge Department of Civil Engineering, University of Maryland online paper.
- Seismic Isolation of Buildings by EPS Earthquake Protection Systems, Inc. presents an overview of its major building projects incorporating seismic isolation devices.
- Seismic Isolation of Industrial Facilities by EPS Earthquake Protection Systems presents its major industrial projects incorporating seismic isolation technique.
- Antiseismic Control: Structural Research Briefing Research projects related to the earthquake/wind protective building control techniques that are developed at the California State University, Northridge.
- Advanced Structural Control: Earthquake Protector Video of a performance testing of a 6-story building model placed on an earthquake protector. The peak horizontal accelerations of the shake table are in the range of 1.2 - 30.6g. California State University Northridge. Requires apple quicktime.
- Earthquake Protection Systems: San Francisco International Airport Terminal Provides an example of a building designed to resist a magnitude 8 earthquake on the nearby San Andreas Fault.
- Seismic Isolation System for Bolu Viaducts, Turkey Earthquake Protection Systems supplied friction pendulum bearings which satisfied the high seismic design requirements for the rebuilding of these viaducts after the 1999 earthquake.
- History, Design and Application of Fluid Dampers in Structural Engineering Taylor Devices, Inc. provides information on the use of damping devices in large structures.
- Fluid Viscous Damping as an Alternative to Base Isolation. Viscous dampers distributed throughout an otherwise conventional structure can achieve the same result as base isolation at a significantly lower cost. This technical paper describes how to install viscous dampers in a structure and gives several examples.