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| # | Name | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | :envihab Building | Germany |
| 2 | 's-Hertogenbosch Station | Netherlands |
| 3 | 't Zand Bus Terminal | Belgium |
| 4 | "taz" publishing house | Germany |
| 5 | "The Harbour" of the Swiss National Exhibition | Switzerland |
| 6 | "Under One Roof" Pavilion | Switzerland |
| 7 | (W)rapper | United States of America |
| 8 | @ 55 | Germany |
| 9 | +e Kita Marburg | Germany |
| 10 | 05 Buckhead | United States of America |
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- Arch-supported roof structures
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- Beam structures
- Central cores with perimeter columns
- Column and beam structures
- Container structures
- Core-outrigger structures
- Domes
- Flat slabs (mushroom floors)
- Folded plate structures
- Frames
- Girder grids
- Hipped-gable roofs
- Horizontal cantilever structures
- Load bearing masonry wall structures
- Monoliths
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- Ribbed concrete slabs
- Shells
- Tensile structures
- Tied-arch roofs
- Trusses
- Tubular Systems
- Vaults
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Case Studies & Reports
Seismic Isolators Protect an Undulating Timber Airport Roof
The appearance is stunning: a wooden roof floats above the reconstructed and expanded Portland airport terminal. Y-columns support the roof. The visionary design became earthquake-resistant using 68 double concave SIP®-Bearings, which si ... [more]
Award-Winning Seismic Protection in El Salvador
During a building conversion, diagonal steel struts with hydraulic dampers were installed for the first time in El Salvador. The MHDs (MAURER Hydraulic Damper) will prevent earthquake damage in the future and protect not only the buildin ... [more]
SIP®-A Bearings: First Two-Stage Seismic Protection Worldwide
The world’s first SIP®-A bearings were installed in a research institute in Mexico City to protect it against earthquakes. The bearings react in two stages in the event of an earthquake, and thus protect not ... [more]
Literature
- (2019): Characteristic Seismic Failures of Buildings. International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), Zurich (Switzerland), ISBN 978-3-85748-166-6, pp. 194.
- (2000): Eckgelagerte Rechteckplatten als Stabilisierungs- und Kopplungselemente im Hochbau. In: Bautechnik, v. 77, n. 1 (January 2000), pp. 37-50.
- (1974): El hormigón pretensado en la edificación española. In: Hormigón y acero, v. 25, n. 112 (3rd Quarter 1974), pp. 13-22.
- (1969): Loadings on buildings. Presented at: IABSE Symposium: Symposium on Concepts of Safety of Structures and Methods of Design, London, United Kingdom, 1969.
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