Seismic protection of counterweight?rails in elevators in buildings.
The counterweight in an elevator, being the heaviest component, can often overstress the guide rails during a strong earthquake. To reduce the in-plane counterweight response, the use of a part of the counterweight mass as a tuned mass damper in the passive and active modes is examined. The passive...
| Published in: | Earthquake engineering & structural dynamics. 35, 3 (2006). |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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