Seismic base-isolation technology is the most effective way to protect your mission-critical and expensive electronic equipment. We use a patented “geometry specific” isolation bearing to decouple the equipment (or any structure) from damaging ground motions. The bearing is 100% gravity restoring which means that after the shaking stops, it will smoothly return to its original location. The bearing also works as a white-noise filter virtually eliminating the transfer of seismic vibrations into sensitive componentry.
If all other peripheral systems, (such as power), stay up and running, your isolated equipment can and will continue to operate and process data right on through a major earthquake.
Base isolation, also known as seismic base isolation or base isolation system, is one of the most popular means of protecting a structure against earthquake forces. It is a collection of structural elements which should substantially decouple a superstructure from its substructure resting on a shaking ground thus protecting a building or non-building structure’s integrity.
Base isolation is the most powerful tool of earthquake engineering pertaining to the passive structural vibration control technologies. It is meant to enable a building or non-building structure to survive a potentially devastating seismic impact through a proper initial design or subsequent modifications. In some cases, application of base isolation can raise both a structure’s seismic performance and its seismic sustainability considerably. Contrary to popular belief base isolation does not make a building earthquake proof. Read more ……
EPS’s Friction PendulumTM seismic isolation bearings protect the world’s most important seismically isolated buildings, bridges and industrial facilities. Our bearings are a specialty engineered product that use a sliding mechanism to control the supported structure’s seismic response and to dissipate earthquake energy. Our advanced, multi-stage Triple Pendulum bearings can be designed to protect not only the structure from damage during the most severe earthquakes, but also its contents and non-structural components. Read more ……
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