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Links to the sites in the area of passive and active structural control.

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• Advanced Structural Control: Earthquake Protector

  http://www.ecs.csun.edu/~shustov/EP-2005.htm
  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.

• Antiseismic Control: Structural Research Briefing

  http://www.ecs.csun.edu/~shustov/Control.htm
  Research projects related to the earthquake/wind protective building control techniques that are developed at the California State University, Northridge.

• BFRL Publications - base isolation

  http://fire.nist.gov/bfrlpubs/bfrlall/key/key170.html
  Building and Fire Research Laboratory of NIST draft guidelines for testing of base isolation systems.

• Building Research Institute (BRI)of Japan

  http://www.kenken.go.jp/english/
  Information from Japan's major national research institution carrying out earthquake engineering and structural control research in buildings.

• Dynamic Analysis of Base-Isolation Highway Bridge

  http://www.isr.umd.edu/~austin/aladdin.d/wjlin-bridge.html
  Department of Civil Engineering, University of Maryland online paper.

• Earthquake Protection Systems: San Francisco International Airport Terminal

  http://www.earthquakeprotection.com/building_san_francisco_airport_terminal.html
  Provides an example of a building designed to resist a magnitude 8 earthquake on the nearby San Andreas Fault.

• Fluid Viscous Damping as an Alternative to Base Isolation.

  http://www.taylordevices.com/fluidviciousdamping.html
  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.

• History, Design and Application of Fluid Dampers in Structural Engineering

  http://www.taylordevices.com/papers/history/design.htm
  Taylor Devices, Inc. provides information on the use of damping devices in large structures.

• Seismic Isolation of Buildings by EPS

  http://www.earthquakeprotection.com/buildings.html
  Earthquake Protection Systems, Inc. presents an overview of its major building projects incorporating seismic isolation devices.

• Seismic Isolation of Industrial Facilities by EPS

  http://www.earthquakeprotection.com/industrial.html
  Earthquake Protection Systems presents its major industrial projects incorporating seismic isolation technique.

• Seismic Isolation System for Bolu Viaducts, Turkey

  http://www.earthquakeprotection.com/bridge_bolu_viaducts.html
  Earthquake Protection Systems supplied friction pendulum bearings which satisfied the high seismic design requirements for the rebuilding of these viaducts after the 1999 earthquake.

• Structural Control Proceedings

  http://www.usc.edu/dept/civil_eng/structural/STRUCTURAL.HTML
  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

  http://www.duke.edu/~hpgavin/
  Research information on semi active vibration control methods and smart damping, magnetorheological, and electrorheological devices.

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