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on Anti-seismic Devices
PRESENT STATE
Tobia Zordan
Chair of the CEN-TC340
Scope
The scope of this presentation is to describe the
present state of the European Standard
EN 15129: Anti-seismic devices (to be used in
structures erected in seismic areas and
designed in accordance with Eurocode 8: Design
of Structures for Earthquake Resistance).
It is within the Scope of this lecture also the
comparison between EN15129 and the
American AASHTO Guide Specification for
Seismic Isolation Design.
UNI EN15129
Anti-seismic devices
Effective and
mandatory in all
the CEN Member
States (Switzerland
included) from
August 1st, 2011.
AASHTO
EN15129
TC340 and WG5 at work. As present Chair of TC340 let me address my thankful
acknowledgment to WG5 for the qualified work carried out in updating the EN15129 .
A special thank also to the Convenor of WG5, Mr. Renzo Medeot, for the availability of the
base material for this presentation.
An editorial and light-technical
updating has been completed
1. Amend typos;
2. Amend light technical inconsitencies or faults;
3. Amend reported difficulties in Norm interpretation;
4. Identify possible inconsistencies with Eurocode 8 to
be amended now or in a close future.
1. Accept;
2. Postpone;
3. Decline.
An editorial and light-technical updating
has been completed
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A number of “Rules” ultimately come to nest in
documents of increasing importance like:
• recommendations
• guidelines
• standards
EN15129: when the story begins
Within the spirit of the above, in March, 1992,
the Italian Standardization Institute (UNI)
forwarded to the European Committee on
Standardization (CEN) a formal request calling
for the creation of a Technical Committee
charged with drafting a norm to cover anti-
seismic hardware.
The first meeting of the officially nominated
Technical Committee - TC340 - finally took
place in Vienna on October, 1993.
1. Scope
2. Normative references
3. Terms and definitions, symbols and abbreviations
4. General design rules
Scope (Sect. 1)
“This European standard covers the design of
devices that are provided in structures with the
aim of modifying their response to the seismic
action.
It specifies functional requirements and general
design rules in the seismic situation, material
characteristics, manufacturing and testing
requirements, as well as acceptance,
installation and maintenance criteria […]”.
General Design Rules (Sect.4)
Initial Type Tests under the responsibility of the Notified Body: characteristics and
methods of assessment
The Anti-seismic Devices
EN15129 groups the devices into “cathegories" on the
basis of their specific features or the common
principles governing their functioning.
Temporary (Dynamic)
Connection Devices
Displacement Dependent Devices
Linear Devices
Displacement
Dependent
Devices
Non-linear Devices
Velocity
Dependent
Devices
Elastomeric Isolators
HDRBs
Isolators
Sliders
Curved Surface Sliders
VS
AASHTO
design
• Reliability Differentiation
• Increased Reliability
W = total vertical
design load for the
device (DL+LL)
k ⋅ d d W ⋅ d Ed W
∆F = = ≥
2 2R 80
that is: R
d Ed ≥
40
where dEd is the design displacement.
We conclude that according to the Guide
Specifications the re-centering capability of a
Friction Pendulum® device is independent
from the value of its dynamic coefficient of
friction μdyn.
This is obviously a paradox.
Conversely, the energy-based approach in the
EN 15129, leads to the following expression;
R ⋅ µdyn
dd ≥
2
As we can see, in the case of energy-based
approach the re-centring capability of the
Friction Pendulum® depends also on the
dynamic coefficient of friction μdyn, as it is
obvious.
CONCLUSIONS
• We believe the European Standard on Anti-
seismic Devices represents at the moment
the most complete and up-to-date document
presently available to Seismic design
Engineers and Seismic Hardware
Manufacturers.
In fact, the Standard aims to cover all types
of existing Seismic Hardware and leaves a
door open to future progress.
This principally derives from the fact that the
Standard is highly performance-oriented.
CONCLUSIONS
• The reviewing phase completed in August
2016 and presently under the period of Public
Enquiry will ensure a further improvement in
the quality and completeness of the EN15129.
• A specific Task Group is being presently
organized for the translation of EN15129 in
Turkish language.