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My intensive research activity in Earthquake
Engineering began purely by chance in 1989,
surprisingly in an Engineering sector in which
I had never worked during my engineering
career.
As a matter of fact, my only contact with the
discipline for a number of years were my
lessons on the laws applying to the seismic
area, given to students of the Construction
Technology course at a technical institute,
where the discipline was taught seriously, but
without moving too far from the teaching limits
imposed by the nature of the institute.
The event arousing my interest in the study of
the seismic isolation was fortuitous, in the
sense that, one day a few years ago, my son
told me that he had learned, in a very generic
form, an anti-seismic technique that had been
used in Japan for some years.
This news, immediately reminded me a my idea
for an analogous system, that had come to me a
few years previously, and which I had shelved,
having considered it to be too innovative to be
accomplished.
I had been wrong and the information on the
Japanese project was very exciting.
From that instant I began to be interested in
the dynamics of buildings subjected to
earthquakes, with particular reference to the
study of isolation methods.
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