Dagomari School: innovation and safety
In La Repubblica they talk about us but above all they talk about our seismic adaptation intervention of the “P. Dagomari” secondary school in Prato.
In this project, in fact, fluid-viscous dissipators were used installed in metal braces inside the school. These dissipators work on the principle of viscous dissipation which in the event of an earthquake leads to a decrease in the seismic action on the rest of the structure as a part of the energy is dissipated by these devices.
They essentially consist of a metal piston that slides inside a cylinder slowed down in motion by a silicone fluid placed inside.
With this same system, albeit with the insertion of a large oscillating mass of 660 tons, the dissipation of the Taipei 101 skyscraper in Taiwan, 509m high, works which, between floors 87 and 92, has installed a dissipation mechanism consisting of a large pendulum which is slowed down in motion by a series of viscous dissipators completely similar to those used in the Dagomari school in Prato.
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