Abstract: The base isolation subcommittee of the seismology committee of the Structural Engineers Association of Northern California (SEAONC) prepared a tentative code in 1986 for base‐isolated structures. Two main procedures were ...

Abstract: This paper presents the experimental results obtained from the study of two similar cylindrical water tanks. One of the tanks was directly fixed to the earthquake simulator, the other was mounted on the base of a scaled ...

Abstract: Multilayered elastomeric bearings are a basic component in base isolation systems. Several design formulas that have been developed and used in the past consider the elastomer as incompressible. In this paper, the effect ...