INFLUENCE OF SEISMIC POUNDING ON RC BUILDINGS WITH AND WITHOUT BASE ISOLATION SYSTEM SUBJECT TO NEAR-FAULT GROUND MOTIONS

Building pounding occurs between two adjacent buildings with small gap or without alarecre.com sufficient separation distance.It leads to damage buildings during earthquake due to impact.Many researchers have investigated building pounding based on impact force reduction and energy dissipation increase, when two buildings collide with each other.In

This paper challenges the charge of inferiority, on the basis of objectivity, against the social sciences.The idea of objectivity is that facts about the state of the world and entities in it are observed or studied without a taint of personal bias, value judgement or apac1/60/1/cw particular perspective.The social sciences are accused of falling s