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- Title
- Base Isolation in Japan, 1988.
- File
- PB91212449.pdf
- Author(s)
- Kelly, J. M.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., December 1988, 100 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- UCB/EERC-88/20
- Abstract
- NSF has provided the University of California at Berkeley a grant to develop a coordinated multidisciplinary United States research plan that addresses the issues that are blocks to accelerated implementation of base isolation for mitigation of the effects of earthquakes on structures and equipment. The first phase of the plan was to collect the appropriate research data being generated by others and in particular the Japanese. A team of researchers was assembled to go to Japan and determine the state-of-the-research there and then use these data to assist in the preparation of a research plan. Other countries were not visited because most of the team members had first-hand knowledge of research being done in such countries as France, Germany, New Zealand, etc. The results of the research expedition are reported in the document in detail.
- Keywords
- ; Shock absorbers; Earthquake resistant structures; Seismic waves; Structural vibration; Damping; Buildings; Earthquake engineering; Vibration damping; Vibration isolators; Japan; Earthquakes