Abstract: Under certain conditions isolation bearings can sustain undesirable tensile forces or uplift, the occurrence of which potentially entail detrimental effects on the isolation-system and the superstructure. This study reports ...

Abstract: The Bolu viaduct is a 2.3-km-long seismically isolated structure that was nearly complete when it was struck by the 1999 Duzce earthquake in Turkey. It suffered complete failure of the seismic isolation system and narrowly ...