{"title":"Seismic Protection of Buildings by Rubber-Soil Mixture as Foundation Isolation","authors":"R. P. Nanda, S. Dutta, H. Khan, S. Majumder","doi":"10.4018/IJGEE.2018010106","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Thisarticleproposesapromisingseismicisolationmethodespeciallysuitablefordevelopingcountries likeIndia.Thisschemeincludestheuseofarubbersoilmixture.Here,theperformanceofawelldesignedlayerofsandmixedwithshreddedrubberasfoundationisolationisstudiednumerically. ThecomputersoftwareABAQUSCAEhasbeenemployedtomodelthedynamicresponseofsoil structureinthisstudy.Ontheotherhand,theuseofscraptiresastherubbermaterialcanprovidean alternativewaytoconsumethehugestockofscraptireallovertheworld.Moreover,thecostofthe proposedseismicschemecangreatlybenefitlow-costhousesforwhichresourcesandtechnologyare notadequateforearthquakemitigationwithwell-developedyetexpensivetechniques.Theproposed methodhasbeendemonstratedthroughaseriesofnumericalsimulation.Onanaverage,theproposed schemecanreducethehorizontalgroundaccelerationby50%.Aparametricstudyalsohasbeen carriedouthere. KEywoRdS Damping, Peak Horizontal Acceleration, Rubber-Soil Mixture, Seismic Isolation, Tire","PeriodicalId":42473,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering","volume":"142 1","pages":"99-109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"21","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJGEE.2018010106","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, GEOLOGICAL","Score":null,"Total":0}