An advanced seismic protection technology: the damped cable system

Selected topics from structural studies carried out on the damped cable system are presented herein. This seismic protection technique has been the subject of a European Community-funded Research Project, recently completed, where it was detailed, implemented, and assessed from analytical/numerical, experimental, architectural, and economic viewpoints. This allowed establishing the required scientific and technological basis for bringing the system to an industrial level. After a general framing of the system characteristics, this paper offers a demonstration of the on-site experimental section of the Project, developed on a full-scale mock-up retrofitted by damped cables. An example design of the system…