The world’s largest governments and corporations in 32 countries rely on EPS engineered seismic solutions to protect their most important buildings, bridges, and industrial facilities. Projects and Clients EPS has three principal engineers each of whom has 30 year’s professional experience specializing in implementing state-of-the-art seismic isolation solutions. Key Personnel EPS’ Friction Pendulum™ isolators are engineered for each application considering seismic hazards, seismic damage limits, structure strength, and construction costs.
Caution is needed when implementing seismic isolators. Isolators that claim structure code compliance, but do not comply with the Isolator Standard, create serious collapse hazards instead of minimizing seismic damage. When EPS is selected as the seismic isolation engineer at the beginning of a project design, EPS designs the isolators to limit seismic damage to conform to the SISCF, and the REDi seismic resiliency criteria, and provides guaranteed isolator prices and on time delivery schedule. REDi Standard EPS also guarantees its isolator prices are lower than those of any alternate isolators having equivalent capacities, properties, and reliability as proven by equivalent testing in accordance with the Seismic Isolation Standard for Continued Functionality. Isolator Standard
Seismic Isolation Devices Meaning
Using seismic isolation devices/systems to control earthquake induced vibration of bri dges and buildings is considered to be a relatively matured technology and such devices have been installed in many structures world-wide in recent decades. Bearings-Seismic Isolation. Having supplied more than 100,000 bearings of all types (elastomeric, pot and spherical bearings, seismic isolation bearings with lead core and friction pendulum) and anti-seismic devices, such as shear keys, viscous dampers and load diffusers, in Greece and abroad, the Company is able to meet any technical requirement. Seismic isolation in a building, when considered within the framework of basic principles of dynamics, can be maintained by taking under the control, modifying and changing the characteristics of both restoring-force when affected by seismic forces, and damping of the building, and also the mass of the building and seismic forces that affect the building.