Evaluation Findings for Seismic Energy Products, L.P. Elastomeric Isolation Bearing

Evaluation Findings for Seismic Energy Products, L.P. Elastomeric Isolation Bearing
Author: Highway Innovative Technology Evaluation Center (U.S.)
Publisher: ASCE Publications
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780784475041

Prepared by the Highway Innovative Technology Evaluation Center (HITEC), a CERF Service Center. This report presents the results of a detailed evaluation for one seismic isolator supplied by Seismic Energy Products, L.P. The evaluation is designed to test the performance of seismic isolators and dampers.

Guidelines for Testing Large Seismic Isolator and Energy Dissipation Devices

Guidelines for Testing Large Seismic Isolator and Energy Dissipation Devices
Author: Highway Innovative Technology Evaluation Center (U.S.)
Publisher: ASCE Publications
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780784475126

Prepared by the Highway Innovative Technology Evaluation Center (HITEC), a CERF Innovation Center. This report outlines the HITEC Technical Evaluation Plan for large seismic isolator and energy dissipation devices. The plan is designed to characterize the fundamental properties and performance characteritics of a wide range of devices produced by U.S. and overseas manufacturers. It describes a program of full-scale dynamic tests, the results of which should provide guidance to the transportation-engineering community regarding the performance of large seismic devices.

Evaluation of Thermocoax Piezoelectric Weigh-in-Motion Sensors

Evaluation of Thermocoax Piezoelectric Weigh-in-Motion Sensors
Author: Highway Innovative Technology Evaluation Center (U.S.)
Publisher: ASCE Publications
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780784475072

Prepared by the Highway Innovative Technology Evaluation Center (HITEC), a CERF Innovation Center. This report describes a program of installation, testing, and evaluation designed to determine the capabilities and limitations of Thermocoax's weigh-in-motion sensor.

Evaluation of the Tricon Retained Soil Wall System

Evaluation of the Tricon Retained Soil Wall System
Author: Highway Innovative Technology Evaluation Center (U.S.)
Publisher: ASCE Publications
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780784475171

Prepared by the Highway Innovative Technology Evaluation Center, a CERF/IIEC Innovation Center. This report describes a HITEC evaluation designed to determine the basic capabilities and limitations of the Tricon System for use as a technically viable, precast, mechanically stabilized earth-retaining wall system. The evaluation considered material, design, construction, performance, and quality assurance information outlined in the HITEC Protocol.

Evaluation of the Geo-Con VERT Wall System

Evaluation of the Geo-Con VERT Wall System
Author: Highway Innovative Technology Evaluation Center (U.S.)
Publisher: ASCE Publications
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780784475133

Prepared by the Highway Innovative Technology Evaluation Center (HITEC), a CERF/IIEC Innovation Center This report describes a HITEC evaluation designed to determine the basic capabilites and limitations of the Geo-Con VERT Wall for use as a technically viable permanent excavation support retaining wall system. The evaluation was conducted based on design, construction, performance, and quality assurance information outlined in the HITEC Protocol. The Geo-Con VERT Wall System is an in-situ retaining wall system intended as an alternative to other types of cut walls such as soldier pile and anchored retaining walls. Geo-Con VERT Wall System is comprised of: deep soil mix columns consisting of overlapping or tangent soil-cement columns along the front face backed up by tangent rows of overlapping soil-cement columns; a soil-cement relieving platform overtop the columns; steel beams embedded in the front face soil-cement columns for support of the permanent facing; and permanent facing consisting of precast, reinforced concrete panels or reinforced cast-in-place concrete. The relieving platform is intended to provide internal stability by typing the soil-mix columns together and transferring the load to the bottom of the columns.

Environmental Technology Verification Report for the Plasma Enhanced Melter

Environmental Technology Verification Report for the Plasma Enhanced Melter
Author:
Publisher: ASCE Publications
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780784475225

Prepared by the Environmental Technology Evaluation Center (EvTEC), a service center of CERF/IIEC. This Technology Verification report describes the nature and scope of the environmental evaluation of the performance of the Plasma Enhanced Melter? (PEM?) system for waste treatment. The evaluation was conducted through a cooperative program established in 1998 between the Washington State Department of Ecology, Integrated Environmental Technology Inc., Allied Technology Group, and the Civil Engineering Research Foundation. The goal of this report is to provide potential users and purchasers of the PEM? system with information they need to make more informed decisions regarding the performance of PEM? as an equivalent or alternative to incineration for treating hazardous waste.

Mechanics of Rubber Bearings for Seismic and Vibration Isolation

Mechanics of Rubber Bearings for Seismic and Vibration Isolation
Author: James M. Kelly
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2011-08-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1119972809

Widely used in civil, mechanical and automotive engineering since the early 1980s, multilayer rubber bearings have been used as seismic isolation devices for buildings in highly seismic areas in many countries. Their appeal in these applications comes from their ability to provide a component with high stiffness in one direction with high flexibility in one or more orthogonal directions. This combination of vertical stiffness with horizontal flexibility, achieved by reinforcing the rubber by thin steel shims perpendicular to the vertical load, enables them to be used as seismic and vibration isolators for machinery, buildings and bridges. Mechanics of Rubber Bearings for Seismic and Vibration Isolation collates the most important information on the mechanics of multilayer rubber bearings. It explores a unique and comprehensive combination of relevant topics, covering all prerequisite fundamental theory and providing a number of closed-form solutions to various boundary value problems as well as a comprehensive historical overview on the use of isolation. Many of the results presented in the book are new and are essential for a proper understanding of the behavior of these bearings and for the design and analysis of vibration or seismic isolation systems. The advantages afforded by adopting these natural rubber systems is clearly explained to designers and users of this technology, bringing into focus the design and specification of bearings for buildings, bridges and industrial structures. This comprehensive book: includes state of the art, as yet unpublished research along with all required fundamental concepts; is authored by world-leading experts with over 40 years of combined experience on seismic isolation and the behavior of multilayer rubber bearings; is accompanied by a website at www.wiley.com/go/kelly The concise approach of Mechanics of Rubber Bearings for Seismic and Vibration Isolation forms an invaluable resource for graduate students and researchers/practitioners in structural and mechanical engineering departments, in particular those working in seismic and vibration isolation.