Purdue University

Study shows local seismic isolation and damping methods provide optimal protection for essential computing equipment

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 ...
Fox2Now St. Louis

Scott Air Force Base unveils new Transport Isolation System

SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, IL (KTVI) – Officials at Scott Air Force Base unveiled a new tool that’ll help protect troops and medical staff combat the spread of deadly diseases. The transportation isolation ...
Medicine Buffalo

Experimental and Analytical Studies of Base Isolation Systems for Seismic Protection of Power Transformers

Keywords: Experimental studies. Analytical studies. Base isolation systems. Seismic protection. Power transformers. Tri-axial earthquake simulator testing. Seismic isolation. Base displacement.
unr.edu

Collaborative research: An innovative gap damper to control seismic isolator displacements in extreme earthquakes

The main objective of this project is to develop and test a phased damping device, or “gap damper”, to act alongside a base isolation system for buildings or bridges. The gap damper provides ...
Medicine Buffalo

Guidelines for Implementing Seismic Base Isolation in Advanced Nuclear Reactors - Revision 01

Keywords: Seismic isolation, nuclear power plants, risk analysis, fragility analysis, test specifications. Revision 01: This revision updates the discussion on the derivation of fragility functions ...