...Akira Maekawa; Tsuneo Takahashi This study presents the response mitigation effect of piping systems by inelastic seismic design based on elastic–plastic property of steel pipe supports. The inelastic seismic design to control vibration by absorbing energy using elastic–plastic properties...

...Akira Maekawa; Tsuneo Takahashi This study describes inelastic seismic design of piping systems considering the damping effect caused by elastic–plastic property of a pipe support which is called an elastic–plastic support. Though the elastic–plastic support is proposed as inelastic seismic design...