Fourth of July weekend ushered in two powerful earthquakes in Southern California. The first, a 6.4-magnitude quake, produced gas leaks and power outages in Ridgecrest, a small city near the Mojave ...

33rd Annual Study of Logistics and Transportation Trends: Puzzling path forward Logistics professionals navigating their path forward face challenging market conditions, an evolving regulatory ...

The benefits of seismic isolation are many. Structures that are isolated from the ground seismically perform better than those that are not. They experience reduced floor accelerations and drifts and ...

Keywords: Earthquake engineering, Power Transformers, Seismic Protection, Base Isolation, Bushings Protection, Friction Pendulum Isolation, Rubber Bearing Isolation, Shake Table Experiments, Design ...

This study assesses the effectiveness of seismic base isolation using triple friction pendulum isolators (TFPIs) as a retrofitting strategy for a five-story steel building. This building is ...

Among the numerous cavernous buildings at the former Navy shipyard on Vallejo’s Mare Island is the home of Earthquake Protection Systems. For more than a quarter century, it has been manufacturing ...

Isolators had to be analyzed as part of the design for the state’s Emergency Operations Center near Olympia. Owners ranging from public agencies to financial institutions and research facilities have ...