Abstract Geotechnical Seismic Isolation (GSI) is an innovative technique for protecting structures in earthquake-prone areas. The main idea to improve the foundation soil so that seismic energy partially dissipated within GSI before being transmitted structure. Among other materials proposed improvement, gravel-rubber mixtures (GRMs), with rubber grains manufactured from end-of-life tires, have...

The values of dissipated energy U d reported in Fig. 4c and d of the original paper are incorrect. The corrected values are provided in the figures below. The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers. Fig. 4 Energy dissipated in breaking the cage, U d calculated from the normalized loss modulus for (c) r = 0.4 and (d) r = 0.2...

Temperature has an influence on damping characteristics of the viscoelastic damping structure. The change of the damping characteristics of the structure under the cycle load is a dynamic and coupled process. The hyperelastic-viscoelastic model was used to describe nonlinear deformation and viscoelasticity simultaneously. The temperature distribution and change of the damping characteristics un...

Wear of Poly (Methyl MethAcrylate), PMMA, against a metallic surface, AISI 316L stainless steel, SS, has been investigated in dry conditions. These materials have been used to simulate the degradation of the contact, femoral stem-bone cement in the field of hip prosthesis. First of all, no significant wear was observed on the 316L SS. PMMA wear has been quantified: the energy wear coefficient, ...

In order to evaluate the seismic performance of new-type composite exterior wallboard, a total of six exterior and interior wallboards were incorporated in the experiment of seismic performance. Seismic performance such as the stress process, damage mode, hysteresis and skeleton curve, load-carrying and ductility coefficient, damping and energy dissipation, stiffness degradation as well as mate...