Earthquake Proof Efficiency of Sliding Base Isolator With Dog-Bone Type Damping

In recent years, there have been more and more seismic retrofit applications of using base isolators in seismic prone regions. In the past, the focuses of researches on the efficiency of various base isolators have been aimed at their behavior under earthquakes without long predominant periods. The doubts of efficiency of the base isolator nearby active faults or located at a soft deposit soil have been raised by researchers. It is revealed from previous studies that the seismic responses of the base isolated structure are significant due to the influence of resonance. In order to minimize the inherent shortcomings of base isolators, various base isolators with dog bone type of friction behavior have been proposed in this study. In the meanwhile, the exact solutions used to describe the behavior of the proposed isolators have also been derived in this study. The numerical studies show that the displacement responses of proposed isolators under near fault earthquakes and ground motions with long predominant periods are much lower than those of the traditional FPS and VCFPS devices. Hence, the required dimensions of proposed isolators can be smaller than those for the FPS and VCFPS isolators.