Architected Material Design For Seismic Isolation
- 技术优势
- The material has been created to have an unprecedented combination of stiffness, strength, and deformability Easily manufactured from off-the-shell metal components through relatively inexpensive manufacturing processesAble to be installed on a wide range of structures and artifacts
- 技术应用
- Cost effective seismic protection for large structures and smaller delicate structures such as computer servers.
- 详细技术说明
- This solution is a new metamaterial with unprecedented properties to overcome limitations of current devices made of traditional materials, such as rubber, polymers, and steel while affordable enough to be installed in all builds and structures. These materials are obtained from customized arrangement at the micron to centimeter scale of multiple elements made of such base materials. The material can then be conformed for use in all sorts of applications through an inexpensive manufacturing and testing process. This reduces insurance costs, property damage, and saves human lives.
- *Abstract
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Just in the Los Angeles area alone, USGS database shows a 95.23% change of a major earthquake occurring. While there are a variety of seismic devices already installed for the protection of high value structures, other customizable, cost efficient devices currently don’t exist for a wide range of other structures such as apartments, residential homes, or event moderate to high value equipment and artifacts. University of California has invented a novel material and method for creating cost efficient seismic protection devices for all types of such structures.
- *Principal Investigation
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Name: Noemi Bonessio
Department:
Name: Lorenzo Valdevit
Department:
Name: Giuseppe Lomiento
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State Of Development
A functional prototype has already been built and tested with satisfactory results.
Tech ID/UC Case
28843/2015-803-0
Related Cases
2015-803-0
- 国家/地区
- 美国
