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CCC: 3
PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURES TECHNOLOGY
PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURES TECHNOLOGY
Edited by: B.H.V. Topping and J. Kruis
Paper 11.3
The new base-isolated Research Center of the Camerino University: design and testing
A. Dall'Asta1, G. Leoni1, F. Micozzi1, L. Gioiella1, N.
Ceccolini1 and L. Ragni2
1University of Camerino, Ascoli Piceno, Italy
2Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
A. Dall'Asta, G. Leoni, F. Micozzi, L. Gioiella, N.
Ceccolini, L. Ragni, "The new base-isolated Research Center of the
Camerino University: design and testing", in B.H.V. Topping, J. Kruis, (Editors), "Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK,
Online volume: CCC 3, Paper 11.3, 2022, doi:10.4203/ccc.3.11.3
Keywords: hybrid base-isolation system, elastomeric bearings, seismic reliability,
seismic robustness, in-field tests, in-field snap-back tests.
Abstract
This paper deals with the new Research Centre designed for the University of
Camerino built following the seismic events in Central Italy in 2016. The first part of
the paper illustrates the design choices made for the isolated structure to achieve a
high level of resilience and robustness of the building, i.e. to limit damage to structural
and non-structural components and equipment under moderate and design seismic
actions and to avoid disproportionate consequences in the event of extreme actions,
larger than the design ones. The second part of the paper is focused on static and
dynamic tests performed during the construction phase of the building. At the end of
the structural system construction (including sub-structures, the isolation system
composed by elastomeric bearings and flat sliders and the steel super-structure), the
building has been tested by means of static and dynamic (snap-back) in-field tests up
to a displacement of the isolation system of 280 mm and 220 mm, respectively.
Displacements have been imposed by means of a properly designed testing
mechanism and different measure instruments have been placed in the building to
register the structural response.
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