Smart Structures and Systems

Volume 4, Number 5, 2008, pages 655-666

DOI: 10.12989/sss.2008.4.5.655

Performance-based design of seismic isolated buildings considering multiple performance objectives

Troy A. Morgan and Stephen A. Mahin

Abstract

In the past 20 years, seismic isolation has see a variety of applications in design of structures to mitigate seismic hazard. In particular, isolation has been seen as a means of achieving enhanced seismic performance objectives, such as those for hospitals, critical emergency response facilities, mass electronic data storage centers, and similar buildings whose functionality following a major seismic event is either critical to the public

Key Words

seismic isolation; performance-based design; inter-story drift; floor spectra.

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