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Earthquake Protection of Non-Structural Elements in Buildings

Seismic Isolation Products offered by Easyflex

Easyflex Brand Restrained Spring Isolators

Features

  • * Spring based Seismic Isolators for large sized equipment
  • * Complete with internal noise isolation pads
  • * Include adjusting and leveling bolt
  • * 25mm and 50mm deflection spring available
  • * Loads upto 5000kg and above available

Application

  • * Boilers
  • * Chillers
  • * Cooling Towers

 

Easyflex Brand Restrained Spring Mountings

Features

  • * Designed to reduce low frequency machinery vibration to structure
  • * Vertical and Lateral restraint to combat external seismic forces
  • * Ideal for equipments on rooftop level

Application

  • * Boilers
  • * Chillers
  • * Cooling Towers

 

Easyflex Brand All-Directional Seismic Snubber

Features

  • * Fabricated of welded steel components with thick neoprene elastomer pads
  • * Designed for minimum 1.0g accelerated force in all directions
  • * Minimize equipment motion during earthquake

Application

  • * Pumps
  • * Fans
  • * Blowers
  • * Outdoor Units
  • * Direct Drive Compressor

 

Easyflex Brand Seismic ‘V’ Connector

Features

  • * Compensate for thermal expansion or the unpredictable pipe movements encountered during seismic activity.
  • * Engineered to absorb movement in All Directions
  • * Can accommodate upto 4” movement in all planes
  • * Impose no pressure thrust load on the piping system
  • * Option of Flanged, Grooved, Welded and Threaded ends

Application

  • •* Piping

 


 

Easyflex-Zip Clip Seismic Wire Rope System

Features

  • * Designed and engineered to brace and secure non-structural equipment and services within a building or structure to minimise earthquake damage to suspended services.
  • * Complete pre-engineered system, no additional swaging on site
  • * 10 times faster to install
  • * Colour coded for easy identification
  • * Upto 1290 kg point loads

Application

  • * Ducting
  • * Piping
  • * Cable Tray
  • * HVAC Unit
  • * Axial Blower

 

Easyflex Brand Seismic ‘U’ Connector

Features

  • * Compensate for thermal expansion or the unpredictable pipe movements encountered during seismic activity.
  • * Different installation arrangements – horizontal, hanging down, vertical, straight up
  • * Can accommodate upto 4” movement
  • * Comes with 90° elbows


Application

  • * Piping

 

Seismic Design & Engineering offered by Easyflex

Easyflex provides cost effective seismic restraint design services for the commercial, institutional and industrial facilities. It is our desire to be a customer’s single source for seismic information and seismic design.


Easyflex provides full engineering support for the seismic restraint of mechanical and electrical equipment. This includes :

  1. Floor mounted equipment such as boilers, pumps, chillers, cooling towers, motors,
    generators and transformers.
  2. Wall mounted equipment such as electrical panel-boards.
  3. Ceiling suspended equipment such as ducting, piping and cable trays.

 


 

Some Prestigious Project where Easyflex has supplied Seismic Isolation Products

  1. ITC Colombo (Restrained Spring Isolators)
  2. Dell Gurgaon (Easyflex-Zip Clip Wire Rope)
  3. ICICI Bank Hyderabad (U-Connector)
  4. Delhi International Airport Limited (Seismic Snubber)
  5. Mumbai International Airport Limited (Seismic Snubber)
  6. Hyderabad International Airport (Seismic Snubber)
  7. Fujeirah Business Centre, UAE (Easyflex-Zip Clip Wire Rope)
  8. Lodha World One, Mumbai (Expansion Bellows and Seismic Isolators)
  9. American Embassy, New Delhi (Inertia Base with Seismic Isolators)
  10. Parker Hannifan India (Seismic Wire Rope)
  11. FIFC BKC Mumbai (Vertical Risers, Seismic Isolators on Chillers/Piping, Inertia Bases)