Dampers
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During a building conversion, diagonal steel struts with hydraulic dampers were installed for the first time in El Salvador. The MHDs (MAURER Hydrauli... [more]
Once completed, the new railroad bridge over the Drava River in Carinthia, Austria, will function with a unique combination of sliding isolation pendu... [more]
The Zinggen Bridge in Brixen was retrofitted with customized vibration dampers to reduce vertical vibrations. In the process, no interventions were al... [more]
In Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, the tallest building in the Caucasus was built. The 277-m high Baku Tower is constantly subjected to enormous wind... [more]
The new intercity line Toluca–Mexico City is scheduled to become operational early in 2021. It has a length of 57.7 km. The daily passenger estimate i... [more]
Bucharest is about to get a “huge butterfly”: two slim office towers, the floor plan of which resembles a butterfly. The wing tips are designed as an ... [more]
A combination of large hydraulic dampers, sliding isolation pendulums and shear keys protects the new railroad bridge SG26 in Greece against seismic-i... [more]
The Great Mosque of Algiers (Djamaâ El Djazïr) will be the third biggest in the world and has to last for at least 500 years – at least theoretically.... [more]
mageba RESTON®SDD Spring Disc Dampers consist of a steel tube containing a piston and a stack of disc springs. The disc springs deform under pressure ... [more]
Presently, and starting from Hong Kong, the 35 km long Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge is being constructed over the delta of the Pearl River. The bridg... [more]
Vienna has a new landmark – at least one half of it: the Danube City Tower 1 protrudes 220 m into the air. Winds let the tower vibrate constantly, mor... [more]
A new standard is presently being set in China; the world's largest cable stayed bridge will receive stay cables of a length of up to 541 m. For the d... [more]
For all involved this is a project of superlatives: Having the APEC Economic Summit 2012 in view, Russia builds the world’s longest cable stayed bridg... [more]
The video which displayed the "dancing bridge of Volgograd" got world wide attention. In particular laymen made venturesome speculations of waves seve... [more]
Destined to become the new foreground to Singapore’s skyline, a complex consisting of hotel, museum and congress centre is currently being erected whi... [more]
The Preloaded Spring Damper is a unit designed to dissipate seismic energy. Also it continuously recenters the struc-ture due to its tension/compressi... [more]
The mageba Shock Transmission Unit (STU) is designed to be connected between bridge structure components to form a rigid link under dynamic loads indu... [more]
Under normal circumstances, Hydraulic Shock Absorbers allow free movements of the bridge structure. Under shock impact, e.g. due to earthquakes, high ... [more]
