Seismic isolation can be used as a practical method to mitigate earthquake hazards for
designing new highway bridges or retrofitting existing ones. To realize a reliable and …

Reducing and controlling the level of vibration in a mechanical system leads to an improved
work environment and product quality, reduced noise, more economical operation, and …

This paper investigates comprehensively the resonance and cancellation conditions for the
free vibration of elastically-supported (ES) beams subjected to successive moving loads …

Seismic isolation devices serve as an important measure to reduce hazards or mitigate
structure damage subject to earthquakes. It's of great necessity to select the optimal …

This study examines the feasibility of applying adaptive fuzzy sliding mode control (AFSMC)
strategies to reduce the dynamic responses of bridges constructed using a lead rubber …

A parametric study is conducted to investigate the effect of lead rubber bearing (LRB)
isolator and ground motion characteristics on the response of seismic isolated bridges. The …

The seismic response of a flexible multi‐storey building isolated with variable friction
pendulum system (VFPS) is investigated under normal component of six near‐fault ground …

There has been an enormous research in the field of seismic performance of structures. The
improvement in the performance is still a challenging task for researchers and engineers …

In this paper, the effect of the presence of (existing or newly added) deformable and
dissipative obstacles (bumpers) on the nonlinear dynamic response of a single-degree-of …

Based on a FEM based nonlinear dynamic numerical method, this study investigates the
detrimental effects of low temperature on the seismic responses of a highway viaduct …