Earthquake design of structures with brittle members and heavy artificial damping by the method of direct integration

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This paper outlines an investigation by the New Zealand Electricity Department into possible methods of increasing the seismic strength of 220kV airblast circuit breakers. The circuit breaker was idealised as a two mass vibrating system whose behaviour in different earthquakes was examined by the method of direct integration of the equations of motion.