- Author
- Building Center of Japan (MOC) | Raufaste, N. J., Jr.
- Title
- Earthquake Resistant Construction Using Base Isolation. Earthquake Protection in Buildings Through Base Isolation.
- Coporate
- Building Center of Japan National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- NIST SP 832 Vol. 1, April 1992, 161 p.
- Distribution
- Available from Government Printing Office
- Keywords
- earthquakes | active damper | base isolation | damping | devices | evaluation | passive damper | performance | seismic | structures | wind loads
- Abstract
- This is Volume 1 of a two volume series on Energy Dissipating systems for buildings and other structures. This volume, Earthquake Protection in Buildings Through Base Isolation describes energy dissipating systems and reviews their applications and effectiveness. The documents include guidelines for evaluating energy dissipating systems and a directory of the systems useed in buildings and other structures. The two volume reports were produced by the Building Center of Japan under sponsorship of the Japanese Ministry of Construction (MOC) to describe the state-of-art energy dissipating systems and to review their use in mitigating damages from earthquakes. The subjects addressed in these reports include: the history and types of passive energy dissipators; their applications, evaluations, and performance; and case histories of these systems exposed to seismic loading.