EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT TECHNIQUES AND ANALYSIS OF TALL BUILDINGS

Vijay Kumar,VECL
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Abstract—The tall buildings are more flexible than the

shorter buildings and they are sensitive to a different
frequency range in the earthquake excitation. The earthquake
success of tall buildings is reinforced by studies using average
properties of earthquake and typical properties of tall
buildings and there are no special earthquake hazards that
arise simply as a consequence of height. The purpose of this
paper is to discuss about different analysis methods, base
isolation and soil structure interaction. Analysis method is
used for a large variety of tall building configurations
comprising slabs, beams, columns, foundations, walls, etc.
Base isolation is a collection of structural elements which
should substantially separate a superstructure from its
substructure resting on a shaking ground which protects the
integrity of building or non-building structures. It is one of the
most powerful equipment’s of earthquake engineering which
uses the passive structural vibration control technologies. Soil
Structure Interaction is the process in which the response of
the soil influences the motion of the structure and the motion
of the structure influences the response of the soil. General
goal of the Soil Structure Interaction analysis is to calculate
seismic response of structure bases on seismic response of free
field.

Keywords— Tall buildings, Analysis methods, Base isolation,

Soil structure interaction.

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F. A. Author is with the National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Boulder, CO 80305 USA (phone: 303-555-5555; fax: 303-555-5555; e-mail:
author@ boulder.nist.gov).
S. B. Author, Jr., was with Rice University, Houston, TX 77005 USA. He is
now with the Department of Physics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins,
CO 80523 USA (e-mail: author@lamar. colostate.edu).
T. C. Author is with the Electrical Engineering Department, University of
Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA, on leave from the National Research
Institute for Metals, Tsukuba, Japan (e-mail: author@nrim.go.jp).