base isolation

Isaac Kremer/ May 10, 2019/ / 0 comments

Isolating the base of a building from the ground with damping mechanisms to allow the superstructure to float as a rigid body and alter the natural period of vibration of the structure so that it is different from that of the ground, thus preventing destructive resonances from occurring. (Ching, 1995)

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