A system for damping seismic motions transmitted from a foundation to an architectural structure is disclosed. The system may include a stacked formation of elements including a washer, a sliding plate, and a damping member. The sliding plate may be fixedly connected to a base member of the architectural structure. During seismic motions, the washer may slide over the top of the sliding plate and the damping member may elastically deform. Accordingly, movement of the base member may trail movement of the foundation, and the acceleration experienced by the architectural structure may be reduced. A method of installing such a seismic damping system is also disclosed.

A sliding seismic isolator includes a first plate attached to a building support, and an elongate element extending from the first plate. The seismic isolator also includes a second plate and a low-friction layer positioned between the first and second plates, the low-friction layer allowing the first and second plates to move freely relative to one another along a horizontal plane. The seismic isolator also includes a lower support member attached to the second plate, with a biasing arrangement, such as at least one spring member or at least one engineered elastomeric element, which can include one or more silicon inserts, positioned within the lower support member. The elongate element extends from the first plate at least partially into the lower support member and movement of the elongate element is influenced or controlled by the biasing arrangement.

The present invention provides a viscoelastic wall panel damping device (100) that provides damping against multidirectional reacting dynamic loads that include in-plane shear force resistance and out of plane force resistance. The viscoelastic wall panel damping device (100) of the present invention, including an assembly (100a) having a pair of symmetrically opposing surfaces formed by a pair of damping element planar members (36a, 38b) that sandwiches a rigid planar member (34). The assembly (100a) being overlaid by a pair of face plates (28, 32), a proximal face plate (28) and a distal face plate (32). Aforementioned pair of face plates (28, 32) and the rigid planar member (34) of the assembly (100a) having a plurality of vertically oriented stiffener members (33) comprising of vertically oriented welded strips (33a) of steel disposed with stiffener elements (33b) at spatial intervals along the length of said welded strips of steel (33a). Aforementioned pair of face plates (28, 32) further being disposed at respective outer surfaces (28a, 32a) with a plurality of horizontal stiffener members (22).

A friction-damping energy absorber has at least one sliding post, a sliding sleeve, and two supporting boards. The at least one sliding post has two ends. Each one of the at least one sliding post is composed of multiple first material layers and multiple second material layers arranged in an alternate manner mounted. The sliding sleeve is mounted around at least one part of the at least one sliding post and is composed of at least one sliding unit. The supporting boards are respectively mounted on two ends of the at least one sliding post.

A seismic base isolation support apparatus 1 comprising: a laminated body 4 having elastic layers 2 and rigid layers 3 which are alternately laminated; a lead plug 7 which is disposed in a hollow portion 6 of the laminated body 4; and a thermal conductor 9 which is disposed between an outer peripheral surface 8 of the lead plug 7 and an inner peripheral surface 5.

A three-dimensional isolator for vibration-seismic dual control. The three-dimensional isolator comprises an isolator body and isolator components, wherein the isolator body comprises a plurality of middle-layer connecting plates and a plurality of rubber module units, the middle-layer connecting plates are vertically arranged at intervals, and the rubber module units are arranged on the upper surfaces and the lower surfaces of the middle-layer connecting plates in parallel and connect the middle-layer connecting plates into a whole; and the isolator components comprise cover plate components and pre-tightening pieces, the cover plate components comprise an upper cover plate, a lower cover plate and side walls which define an isolator cavity, a flange plate is arranged on the top of the side wall, a gap is reserved between the upper cover plate and the flange plate.

A seismic base isolation support apparatus 1 includes: a laminated body 4 in which elastic layers 2 and rigid layers 3 are alternately laminated; a circularly columnar body 7 which is disposed in a hollow portion 6 of the laminated body 4; an outer peripheral protective layer 9 covering an outer peripheral surface 8 of the laminated body 4; an upper mounting plate 11 and a lower mounting plate 12 which are respectively connected to an uppermost rigid layer 3 of the rigid layers 3 and a lowermost rigid layer 3 of the rigid layers 3 by means of bolts 10; a shear key 15 which is fittingly secured in a recess 13 of the uppermost rigid layer 3 and a recess 14 of the upper mounting plate 11; and a shear key 18 which is fittingly secured in a recess 16 of the lowermost rigid layer 3 and a recess 17 of the lower mounting plate 12.

Disclosed is an intelligent anti-seismic device for a shallow foundation ancient building, which may include a land, a foundation base and an ancient building body, foundation pit is excavated on a surface of the land, a plurality of piles are arranged on an inner wall of the foundation pit, a foundation side beam is integrally formed by pouring on tops of the plurality of piles, a first earthquake proof mechanism capable of being lifted and lowered is fixed on a top of the foundation side beam, a well-shaped base is integrally formed on the inner wall of the foundation pit, a second earthquake proof mechanism is fixed on a surface of the well-shaped base, a frame is fixed on both tops of the first earthquake proof mechanism and the second earthquake proof mechanism, a grillage beam is integrally formed on an inner wall of the frame.

An anti-seismic grid framework system including a grid framework structure configured for supporting a load handling device operative to move one or more containers in a stack. The anti-seismic grid framework system includes a seismic isolation system for reducing seismic forces acting on the grid framework structure, wherein the grid framework structure is supported by the seismic isolation system, the seismic isolation system including a superstructure and a substructure, and at least one base isolation device disposed between the superstructure and the substructure such that the at least one base isolation device suppresses movement of the superstructure relative to the substructure in a seismic event.

Provided is a rubber bearing formed from a polychloroprene composition and having higher ozone resistance.

The rubber bearing comprises a laminate prepared by alternately laminating a plurality of soft layers having rubber elasticity and a plurality of hard layers having rigidity, and a covering layer covering an outer peripheral part of the laminate. The soft layer comprises a rubber composition containing a polychloroprene, and the covering layer comprises a blend rubber composition containing 30 to 95 parts by mass of a polychloroprene and 70 to 5 parts by mass of an elastomer other than the polychloroprene.