Earthquakes and Structures

Volume 3, Number 6, 2012, pages 853-867

DOI: 10.12989/eas.2012.3.6.853

Telescopic columns as a new base isolation system for vibration control of high-rise buildings

Mahmood Hosseini and Ehsan Noroozinejad Farsangi

Abstract

In this paper, a new type of passive energy dissipating system similar to added damping and stiffness (ADAS) and triangular added damping and stiffness (TADAS) is proposed and implemented in the analytical model of a building with hybrid structural system in the structure

Key Words

telescopic columns; seismic behavior; nonlinear analysis; rubber isolator bearings; friction pendulum bearings

Address

Mahmood Hosseini and Ehsan Noroozinejad Farsangi: Structural Engineering Research Center, International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (IIEES), Tehran, Iran