Structural support (1) including a first support portion (2) delimiting at least one containment compartment (4, 4′); a second support portion (6) at least partly in front of the containment compartment (4, 4′); and a sliding element (4), housed in the containment compartment (4, 4′) and interposed between the first (2) and the second (6) support portion. The sliding element (8) substantially consists of a thermo-processable fluoro-polymer with a melt-mass flow rate—according to the ISO 1133-1:2011 standard—of less than 5.0 grams/10 minutes, for example under 3.0 grams/10 minutes.

A laminated sliding member 1 includes a base body 4 having one flat surface 3 which is circular in a plan view and a solid lubricant layer 5 adhered to the flat surface 3 of the base body 4 and having a sliding surface 2 which is circular in a plan view.

A composite sliding block to be arranged between two supporting plates of a frictional-type seismic isolator, with one supporting plate connected to the superstructure to be isolated and the other to the foundations, comprising two contact components that externally are slidingly or articulatedly in contact with said supporting plates, depending on whether the isolator has one or two sliding surfaces, and internally are coupled to each other by means of a male projection of one component in a female recess of the other. An elastomeric seal occupies an empty space surrounding the projection within the recess and, on the external side of the contact component(s) slidingly in contact with the supporting plate(s), a sliding plate is accommodated in a corresponding niche having an elastomeric compression support at the bottom. Frictional pendulum-type isolators with one or two concave sliding surfaces include such a block.

A sliding pendulum bearing is used to protect a construction against dynamic stresses from predominantly horizontal earthquake excitation with a first sliding plate, a second sliding plate and a slider movably arranged between both sliding plates, wherein each of the two sliding plates has a curved main sliding surface and the slider is in surface contact with a first main sliding surface of the first sliding plate and with a second main sliding surface of the second sliding plate, wherein the first main sliding surface is designed for a first load case and the second main sliding surface is designed for a second load case which differs from the first load case.

Structural support (1) including a first support portion (2) delimiting at least one containment compartment (4, 4); a second support portion (6) at least partly in front of the containment compartment (4, 4); and a sliding element (4), housed in the containment compartment (4, 4) and interposed between the first (2) and the second (6) support portion. The sliding element (8) substantially consists of a thermo-processable fluoro-polymer with a melt-mass flow rateaccording to the ISO 1133-1:2011 standardof less than 5.0 grams/10 minutes, for example under 3.0 grams/10 minutes.

A sliding pendulum bearing is used to protect a construction against dynamic stresses from predominantly horizontal earthquake excitation with a first sliding plate, a second sliding plate and a slider movably arranged between both sliding plates, wherein each of the two sliding plates has a curved main sliding surface and the slider is in surface contact with a first main sliding surface of the first sliding plate and with a second main sliding surface of the second sliding plate, wherein the first main sliding surface is designed for a first load case and the second main sliding surface is designed for a second load case which differs from the first load case.

Disclosed are a spherical steel bearing, an intelligent bearing and a bearing monitoring system, belonging to the technical field of bearings. The spherical steel bearing comprises a top bearing plate, a bottom bearing plate, a spherical steel plate and a base plate, wherein the base plate are stacked together with the top bearing plate or the bottom bearing plate. A pressure sensing unit is arranged between the top bearing plate and the base plate or between the bottom bearing plate and the base plate. The intelligent bearing includes a data acquisition unit, a data output unit and the spherical steel bearing, the data acquisition unit transmitting the bearing pressure measured by the pressure sensing unit to the data output unit. The bearing monitoring system includes a data acquisition unit, a data output unit, a monitoring center and the spherical steel bearing.