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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 43
ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Edited by: B.H.V. Topping
Paper XII.1

Seismic Response Amplification of Submerged Secondary Systems in Base-Isolated Structures

T.-M. Shin* and K.-J. Kim#

*Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Taejon, Korea
#Department of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST, Taejon, Korea

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
T.-M. Shin, K.-J. Kim, "Seismic Response Amplification of Submerged Secondary Systems in Base-Isolated Structures", in B.H.V. Topping, (Editor), "Advances in Computational Techniques for Structural Engineering", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 269-281, 1996. doi:10.4203/ccp.43.12.1
Abstract
A careful evaluation should be made for potential seismic response jump of submerged secondary systems when a base-isolation is going to be applied to their primary structure.

This paper presents how to do dynamic analysis of submerged secondary systems on base-isolated primary structures and illustrates how much the base-isolation can aggravate the seismic response of the secondary systems when no treatments are made on the secondary systems. It is shown that additional treatments such as appropriate control of fluid gap between a secondary system and the primary structure may be helpful to reduce the adverse effects. In addition, the Laminated Rubber Bearing (LRB) base isolation of the submerged secondary system, is introduced as another solution for a case where the secondary system itself should be submerged without any alterations but the primary structure should be base-isolated.

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