Performance of a guideway seismic isolator with magnetic springs for precision machinery.

This paper proposes the use of the nonlinear restoring force in an isolation system to improve the performance of a seismic isolator. Nonlinear magnetic springs applied to guideway sliding isolators (GSI) that protect precision machinery against seismic motion were studied. The magnetic springs use...

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Published in:Earthquake engineering & structural dynamics. 38, 2 (2009).
Main Author: Yao, George C.
Format: Article
Language:English
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