Abstract
Civil engineering structures and infrastructures are inherently vulnerable to exceptional loads related to natural disasters, primarily earthquakes, tsunamis, strong winds, and floods [...]
Highlights
Civil engineering structures and infrastructures are inherently vulnerable to exceptional loads related to natural disasters, primarily earthquakes, tsunamis, strong winds, and floods
Base isolation and passive energy dissipation systems have demonstrated their effectiveness in coping with different kinds of environmental forces, including earthquakes and winds, as documented in theoretical and numerical studies and shaking table tests, as well as evidence from how they behaved during real catastrophic events
Other significant contributions concern the development of hybrid protective systems based on energy dissipation devices that are conventional in their working mechanism, but that are combined together in a non-conventional arrangement so that their dynamic behavior is more effective than existing technologies
Summary
Civil engineering structures and infrastructures are inherently vulnerable to exceptional loads related to natural disasters, primarily earthquakes, tsunamis, strong winds, and floods. Other significant contributions concern the development of hybrid protective systems based on energy dissipation devices that are conventional in their working mechanism, but that are combined together in a non-conventional arrangement so that their dynamic behavior is more effective than existing technologies.
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