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Base Isolation Systems

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This chapter discusses base-isolation systems. A set of simple examples are presented to identify the key parameters and illustrate the quantitative aspects of base isolation. This material is followed by a discussion of practical aspects of seismic base isolation and a description of some seismically isolated buildings. The remaining sections deal with the behavioral and design issues for base isolated multi-degree-of-freedom structural systems. Numerical results illustrating the level of performance feasible with seismic base isolation are included to provide a basis of comparison with the other motion control schemes considered in this text.

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  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Jerome Connor

  2. Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA

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Connor, J., Laflamme, S. (2014). Base Isolation Systems. In: Structural Motion Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06281-5_6

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