Complete with column-mounted triple-pendulum isolation bearings, 1908 Shattuck Avenue is also the seismic engineer's pet project. "We tell clients they should do this," says Tipping, who is paying a ...

Keywords: seismic isolation; Triple FP isolator modeling; uplift, landing, rocking, bouncing, overturning, flying and contact of bearing components Abstract: Current models that describe the behavior ...

Keywords: Seismic isolation, triple friction pendulum bearing, modeling, heating effects, OpenSees Abstract: This report presents and verifies a revised model of the behavior of triple friction ...

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 ...