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The design of steel energy absorbing restrainers and their incorporation into nuclear power plants for enhanced safety: Volume 4 -- Review of current uses of energy absorbing devices

Kelly, James M.; Skinner, Mark S.

UCB/EERC-79/10, Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, 1979-02, 60 pages (530/D38/1979/v.4)

The energy absorption devices described in this report have been classified into four groups according to energy absorbing mechanism: (1) plastic deformation of metals, (2) extrusion, (3) friction, and (4) metal cutting. Devices that do not readily fit into any of these categories have been treated in a separate section.

Available online: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/EERC/EERC-79-10.pdf (7 MB)