Abstract: Base isolation is a powerful technique to prevent damage in low- and medium-rise structures during an earthquake. Nowadays, the extensive use of high-damping viscoelastic (VE) materials in base isolators has motivated the ...

Abstract: Fractional-order derivative (FD) models are widely used to describe the dynamic behavior of rubber-like materials. However, experiments have shown that FD models cannot reproduce the amplitude dependence and the slow ...

Abstract: The fractional-order derivative Zener (FDZ) model can reasonably predict the frequency dependence behavior of rubber-like materials. However, its capability to capture nonlinear behaviors is limited. In our previous work, ...