Research on the application of seismic isolation methods will lead to better protection of buildings, infrastructure, and sensitive equipment subjected to dynamic loads caused by seismic activity. The ...

Disruption of a payload can be caused by three of the primary sources of vibration (or noise): ground vibration, acoustic noise, and direct force disturbances. Ground, or seismic vibration, is present ...

Vibration Management Corporation is showing its SSM Series seismic spring isolators with built-in all directional snubbing. The isolators are designed to withstand minimum seismic forces of ...

ITT Corp.’s Control Technologies business is partnering with the Power Transmission Division of Siemens AG to engineer new seismic damping and isolation systems that use ITT’s Enidine brand ...

Howard University professor Claudia Marin-Artieda at the NEES at Buffalo laboratory with her research team and the "Yahoo frame." With 40 servers installed, the frame was shaken with servers in ...

A three dimensional seismic isolation system was developed and experimentally validated for high-voltage electric power transformers of weight in the range of 300 to 800kip. Although the validation ...

A seismic isolation system provided by Casper, Phillips & Associates Inc. (CPA) has been installed on two quayside container cranes. The crane base anti-seismic isolation system (BASIS) is built on ...

There is a new generation of fiber optic sensing systems, which can be employed to great utility in the monitoring of well conditions within the oil and gas industry, resulting in improved performance ...