ABSTRACT
In the last years, anti-seismic devices have benefitted from numerous advances in the materials and technological fields, which have increased global performance in terms of durability and capacity to sustain dynamic loading and thus allowing improved design of structures. Anti-seismic devices are required, by the design codes, to sustain an experimental protocol to characterise their main response parameters and allow for a global evaluation. The tests intend to replicate the worst operative conditions the devices could face during their design life. In this paper, two residential buildings equipped with curved surface slider isolators are analysed through Non-Linear Time History Analyses using a large number of accelerograms to assess the realistic combinations of external actions applied during their life. Based on the analysis outcomes, tentative general rules to define an optimised testing protocol for devices will be derived and compared to the testing requirements given in the codes.
