ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of the book. The book presents some representative results that have been performed to evaluate the effects of base isolation on the seismic response behaviour of isolated adjacent buildings with significantly different dynamic properties in the time domain. Furthermore, the effect of soil-structure interaction (SSI) in multi-storey asymmetric adjacent buildings is investigated for impact cases, using the approximate method for MDOF modal equations of motion and the rigorous method for the direct integration method. The fluid viscous dampers are found to be very effective in reducing the earthquake responses of adjacent linked buildings. There is an optimum placement of dampers for minimum earthquake response of two adjacent connected buildings. The book shows that it is not necessary to connect the two adjacent buildings with dampers at all floors but lesser dampers at select locations can reduce the response during seismic events.
