US Patent Issued to SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 14 for "Method for design of seismic-damping partition wall with variable friction energy dissipation" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,183, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Guangzhou, China).

"Method for design of seismic-damping partition wall with variable friction energy dissipation" was invented by Junxian Zhao (Guangzhou, China), Hao Qin (Guangzhou, China), Zhaoxun Yuan (Guangzhou, China) and Jinkun Wang (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method for design of a seismic-damping partition wall with variable-friction-force energy dissipation provided by the present application includes the following steps: building a bare frame model without considering lateral resisting stiffness of a partition wall, and c...