Keywords: High voltage bushing structures. Seismic performance. Stiffening techniques. Vulnerability. Damage mitigation. Numerical simulations. Shaking table tests ...

Researchers have developed a novel negative-stiffness isolation device that offers a pioneering solution for seismic protection. The device, designed to provide multidirectional negative stiffness and ...

Engineers designing the Giant Magellan Telescope celebrated the feat of having their innovative seismic protection design validated by an independent review panel. This group of experts in seismic ...

Condition monitoring applications do not come more critical than those associated with the nuclear power sector where specialised instrumentation for plant condition monitoring and seismic protection ...

Seismic isolation systems offer an invaluable means of protecting buildings from earthquake‐induced forces by decoupling the structure from ground motion. Recent technological advances have focused on ...

Basic -- Victoria B. Valentine, P.E. Since 2000, seismic protection has become more prevalent. Although there are scenarios where the details of earthquake protection can get complex, some basic ...

Ankit Saxena wants to protect nuclear reactors and other infrastructure from future seismic activity. And he sees particle dampers, a vibration-damping technology, as the key to success. To further ...

Rensselaer Associate Professor Michael Symans and incoming Dean of Engineering David Rosowsky are among the team of researchers who will converge in Japan next week to perform the largest earthquake ...

Osman Ozbulut receives funding from NSF. The Feb. 6, 2023, earthquakes in Turkey and Syria damaged over 100,000 buildings, caused more than 10,000 collapses and killed more than 50,000 people. These ...

The addition of flexural stiffeners on the transformer cover plates was explored as a means to stiffen the base of the bushings and mitigate their seismic vulnerability. Numerical and experimental ...