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Earthquakes and Structures
  Volume 10, Number 4, April 2016 , pages 829-847
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/eas.2016.10.4.829
 


Seismic base isolation for structures using river sand
S.J. Patil, G.R. Reddy, R. Shivshankar, Ramesh Babu, B.R. Jayalekshmi and Binu Kumar

 
Abstract
    Generally seismic isolation is achieved by supporting the structure on laminated rubber bearings, friction pendulum bearings, roller bearings etc. Very little work has been performed using soil as a base isolation media. Experiments and analytical work has been performed on a structural model with isolated footing and found encouraging results. Details of this work are presented in this paper.
 
Key Words
    isolated footings; natural seismic base isolation; modulus reduction; IS 1893
 
Address
S.J. Patil: Heavy Water Board, Mumbai, India

G.R. Reddy, Binu Kumar: BARC & HBNI, Mumbai, India

R. Shivshankar, B.R. Jayalekshmi: NITK, Suratkal, India

Ramesh Babu: CPRI, Banglore, India
 

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