Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration Laboratory Foundation,Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Administration Under Grant No.2009a1;the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.50878071
This paper presents an experimental study to investigate the performance of shape memory alloy(SMA) restrainers for mitigating the pounding and unseating of highway bridges when subjected to seismic excitations.Mechan...
Over the past decade, seismically induced damage to bridges has been widely reported following major earthquakes such as the 1994 Northridge, 1995 Kobe and 1999 Chi-Chi events. Since these earthquakes, restrainers and...