Rubber-like materials, commonly used in dampeners, possess a unique property known as dynamic viscoelasticity, enabling them to convert mechanical energy from vibrations into heat while exhibiting ...

Keywords: Underground pipe joints. Unrestrained pipe joints. Restrained pipe joints. Testing. Pipelines. Dynamic behavior. Seismic behavior. Systems analysis. Risk assessment. Abstract: This MCEER ...

Rubber-like materials have outstanding damping properties because they can concurrently display flow-like and spring-like characteristics. Recently, Japanese researchers have created a novel technique ...

The proposed intelligent analysis method bridges high-fidelity modeling and computational efficiency. It uses an iterative algorithm to identify optimal mode shapes ...