Base isolation has been established as the seismic design approach of choice when it comes to protecting nonstructural contents. However, while this protection technology has …
S Chimamphant, K Kasai - Earthquake engineering & structural …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A building with a seismic isolation system, in an earthquake, is recognized as producing substantially smaller accelerations and deformations compared with a building that use …
H Jiang, Y Wang, L He - Advances in Civil Engineering, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
During some recent earthquakes, the suspended ceiling system (SCS) in buildings suffered severe damage. The seismic performance of SCS attracted more attention from researchers …
D Wang, J Dai, Z Qu, X Ning - Earthquake Engineering and Engineering …, 2016 - Springer
Severe damage to suspended ceilings of metal grids and lay-in panels was observed in public buildings during the 2013 M s 7.0 Lushan earthquake in China. Over the past several …
H Hasani, KL Ryan - Journal of Earthquake Engineering, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Bidirectional quasi-static cyclic loading was applied to a subassembly of drywall partition walls integrated with cross-laminated timber rocking walls. Details aimed to reduce seismic …
T Sasaki, E Sato, KL Ryan, T Okazaki, SA Mahin… - Proceedings of the 15th …, 2012 - iitk.ac.in
This is one of four papers reporting a NEES/E-Defense collaborative program on base- isolated buildings. A full-scale, five-story, two-by-two bay, steel moment-frame building was …
Nonstructural systems are responsible for the majority of national loss suffered during earthquakes, and suspended ceilings with acoustic lay-in tiles are among the most …