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Designing and Characterizing Negative Stiffness Devices for Apparent Weakening and Vertical Isolation
Cain, Thomas (2020-05)Nonlinear systems leveraging the effects of negative stiffness can exhibit beneficial qualities for passive seismic mitigation in structures. Such systems can be achieved by placing nonlinear devices displaying negative ...