ABSTRACT
This chapter describes six numerical examples. The numerical model for 4 and 3 storey base-isolated coupled buildings is used to investigate the effects of pounding, which is a modification of the examples adopted by Jankowski. The 5 and 4 storeys fixed-base asymmetric buildings are used in order to investigate the SSI effects and pounding through the rigorous method. Two numerical examples are designed for adjacent buildings, utilising passive and active dampers. For utilising the capabilities of magnetorheological (MR) dampers on to adjacent buildings, two numerical examples are presented. The responses of these numerical examples are investigated under strong components of various earthquake excitations based on peak ground accelerations. A MATLAB based on SIMULINK model was built to simulate the system, including the MR damper model. The performance of MR damper is compared under seven controllers including two proposed methods (FLC combined GA and directly GA).
