Auteur Michael C. Constantinou
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Ioannis V. Kalpakidis, Auteur ; Michael C. Constantinou, Auteur ; Andrew S. Whittaker, Auteur |Lead-rubber bearings are seismic isolators that have been used extensively to protect buildings, bridges, and mission-critical infrastructure from the damaging effects of earthquake shaking. In bridges, lead-rubber bearings are subjected to cont[...]
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Dhiman Basu, Auteur ; Andrew S. Whittaker, Auteur ; Michael C. Constantinou, Auteur |Seismic analysis, design, and performance assessment of buildings, bridges, and safety-related nuclear structures is based on two or three translational components of earthquake ground motion. Although rotational components (rocking and torsiona[...]
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Yin-Nan Huang, Auteur ; Andrew S. Whittaker, Auteur ; Michael C. Constantinou, Auteur |Numerical models of a sample nuclear power plant (NPP) reactor building, both conventionally constructed and equipped with seismic protective systems, are analysed for both safe shutdown and beyond-design-basis earthquake shaking at two coastal [...]
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Fenz, Daniel M., Auteur ; Michael C. Constantinou, Auteur |This paper describes an experimental program to examine the force-displacement behavior of a class of multi-spherical sliding bearings. The primary goal of the experiments is to test the validity of the theory developed in a companion paper that[...]
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Fenz, Daniel M., Auteur ; Michael C. Constantinou, Auteur |The principles of operation and force-displacement relationships of three novel spherical sliding isolation bearings are developed in this paper. These bearings are completely passive devices, yet exhibit adaptive stiffness and adaptive damping.[...]
