Seismic isolation bearings
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The world’s first SIP®-A bearings were installed in a research institute in Mexico City to protect it against earthquakes. The bearings react in two s... [more]
Highly sensitive measuring equipment located next to busy traffic routes and in a seismic area: To protect the laboratory, MAURER developed the new SI... [more]
For the first time, a hospital in Chile was isolated with Double Sliding Isolation Pendulums. The innovative building design is the outcome of intense... [more]
Colombia: Horseshoe shape of the Yarumo Blanco Viaduct challenges engineers. [more]
The new major airport Felipe Ángeles (AIFA) is about to be built, near Mexico City. To protect the huge terminal against earthquakes, it will be isola... [more]
The large-scale extraction of gas in the area around Groningen results in frequent “artificial” earthquakes triggered by subterranean landslips. Calcu... [more]
The Çayırhan Bridge crosses the Sariyar reservoir west of Ankara. Its pillars are periodically subjected to inundation. For the new bridge constructio... [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]
For a new highway bridge near Parma, MAURER developed a tailor-made concept of pendulum bearings, lead rubber bearings, and modular expansion joints. ... [more]
mageba seismic isolator RESTON-PENDULUM bearings are based on the functional principle of a pendulum. They allow a structure to become horizontally di... [more]
mageba LASTO®HDRB High Damping Rubber Bearings isolate a structure from the movements of the ground during an earthquake and thus limit the seismic en... [more]
In the framework of the European research project SILER (Seismic-Initiated events risk mitigation in Lead-cooled Reactors), MAURER developed a bridgin... [more]
The LASTO®LRB Lead Rubber Bearing is designed to isolate the structure from horizontal ground movements due to seismic events. The bearing consists of... [more]
