Assessment of a hydraulic bottle jack as an effective device for controlling vibration and mitigating the effects of earthquakes
Alexandre de Macêdo Wahrhaftig,
Cibele Mota Menezes,
Rodrigo Oliveira da Silva Conceiçao
et al.
Abstract:The aim of this work was to assess the capability of a hydraulic bottle jack to control vibrations and the effects of earthquakes. The first stage of the present investigation focused on determining the axial stiffness of the apparatus, in order to relate its behavior to that of a linear elastic element. To do this, uniaxial compression tests were carried out using a manually controlled servo system. In the second stage, a conceptual application based on the field of mechanical vibrations was considered. The e… Show more
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