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Rubber Shock Absorbers as a Mitigation Technique for Earthquake-Induced Pounding

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Adjacent buildings; Collision; Elastomeric pads; Impact; Neighboring buildings; Rubber bumpers; Seismic gap; Seismic isolation; Standing distance

Introduction

In densely resided areas and city centers, neighboring buildings are usually constructed very close to each other without adequate clearance between them. Therefore, during strong earthquakes, structural pounding may occur between adjacent buildings, due to deformations of their stories “Learning from Earthquake Disasters.” Consequences of such pounding occurrences, ranging from light local damage to severe structural damage or even collapse, have been observed and reported in past strong earthquakes “Post-Earthquake Diagnosis of Partially Instrumented Building Structures” (Anagnostopoulos 1995; Bertero 1987; EERI 1990, 2000). In case of structural pounding, both floor accelerations and interstory deflections may be significantly amplified, threatening the functionality and the contents of the building (Papadrakakis and...

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  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Cyprus, 75 Kallipoleos Str., 20537, 1678, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Panayiotis C. Polycarpou & Petros Komodromos

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  1. Institute for Computer Science in Civil Engineering, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, University Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Michael Beer

  2. Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Ioannis A. Kougioumtzoglou

  3. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty and Centre for Engineering Sustainability, Liverpool, UK

    Edoardo Patelli

  4. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty and Centre for Engineering Dynamics, Liverpool, UK

    Siu-Kui Au

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Polycarpou, P.C., Komodromos, P. (2015). Rubber Shock Absorbers as a Mitigation Technique for Earthquake-Induced Pounding. In: Beer, M., Kougioumtzoglou, I.A., Patelli, E., Au, SK. (eds) Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35344-4_311

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