R&D in Progress at ENEA on the Innovative Anti-Seismic Techniques, withParticular Attention to the Industrial Plants

摘要

Reported in this paper are some features of R&D recently performed and in progress at the Italian Agency for NewTechnology, Energy and the Environment (ENEA) on seismic protection of structures, in particular industrial plants, throughinnovative anti-seismic (IAS) techniques, namely seismic isolation, passive energy dissipation and semi-active control. Thiswork is being performed in the framework of both new projects funded by the European Commission and a national projectfunded by the National Research Council. The first (SPACE and SPIDER) aim at the development of floor isolation systems,semi-active systems and systems formed by energy dissipation devices and cables. The second (ISI), to which this papermainly refers, aims at the development of suitable IAS systems for the protection of high risk components in highly seismicareas and already provided very important results, in particular for tanks containing hazardous materials: in fact, ISI makesreference to a real component, located in a highly seismic Italian site, which will be possibly retrofitted using IAS techniques.