Keywords: Seismic performance. Nonstructural components. Static friction coefficient. Kinetic friction coefficient. Rigid blocks. Block-type components. Tilt and pull tests. Dynamic analyses.

The original version of this Article contained errors in the Methods section, Figures 2 and 3, and Supplementary Figure 3. “The parameters for the viscoelastic object are chosen as \(\nu = 0.34, \, ...

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