Verbesserte Bemessungsrichtlinien für Bewehrte Elastomerlager

Advanced Design Guidelines for Fiber Reinforced Elastomeric Bearings.

This paper represents the summary of the development of advanced design guidelines for elastomeric bearings acquired in the course of a FWF project. This research is a reaction on the deficits of the current design codes for statically and dynamically loaded elastomeric bearings. Simplifications and contradictions of the design codes [1] and [2] are discussed. Furthermore the discrepancy between the simplified analytical formulations and the complex bearing behavior is described.