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Base Isolation Design Guidelines (2.8 Mb)

Design of base isolation systems for bridges and buildings. Includes chapters on the principles of base isolation; implementation issues for buildings and bridges; seismic input; performance and engineering properties of different types of seismic isolation systems; design of the isolators; connection design and structural design. Examples of isolation system design for buildings, bridges and industrial equipment plus a summary of actual earthquake performance of seismic isolated structures and bibliography. Lead rubber bearings, high damping rubber bearings, sliding bearings and the Friction Pendulum System©.

BaseIsolationDesignGuidelines.pdf
BaseIsolationDesignGuidelines-US.pdf
BaseIsolationDesignGuidelines-TOC.pdf

Damper Design Guidelines (1.6 Mb)

Design of in-structure dampers and energy dissipators for buildings. Includes chapters on the principles of in-structure damping; theoretical damper properties; damping decay; time history results; practical device properties; design procedures and bibliography. Hysteretic, friction, viscous and visco-elastic dampers.

DamperDesignGuidelines.pdf
DamperDesignGuidelines-US.pdf
DamperDesignGuidelines-TOC.pdf

Performance Based Analysis Guidelines (4.6 Mb)

A Users Manual for Performance Based Design concepts for the evaluation and rehabilitation of existing buildings. Based on NZNSEE and FEMA-273 / FEMA-356 requirements. Covers both the NSP (nonlinear pushover) and NDP (nonlinear time history) methods. Chapters include concepts of performance based design; earthquake input; modeling techniques; material and element models for degrading strength and degrading stiffness frame and wall elements; model preparation, nonlinear analysis and results processing using Holmes Consulting Group software; acceptance criteria; evaluation of response; project list and bibliography.

The details of the analysis are specific to Holmes Consulting Group proprietary software but other sections provide general concepts for performing NSP and NDP evaluations of existing structures.

PerformanceBasedAnalysis.pdf
PerformanceBasedAnalysis -US.pdf
PerformanceBasedAnalysis -TOC.pdf