Review on seismic isolation and response control methods of buildings in Japan

Abstract This manuscript reviews seismic isolation and response control methods of buildings, which are able to make buildings resilient against earthquakes and have become popular during the last three decades in Japan. Seismic isolation is a method of protecting a building from major earthquakes b...

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Main Authors: Yutaka Nakamura, Keiichi Okada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-06-01
Series:Geoenvironmental Disasters
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40677-019-0123-y