~ 2 payee NATIONAL CENTER FOR EARTHQUAKE || i ie ENGINEERING RESEARCH State University of New York at Buffalo — —— SS Ee SSS BASE ISOLATION OF A MULII-STORY BUILDING UNDER A HARMONIC GROUND MOTION - A COMPARISON OF PERFORMANCES OF VARIOUS SYSTEMS by F-G. Fan, and G. Ahmadi Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Clarkson University Potsdam, New York 13676 LG. Tadjbakhsh — Troy, New York 12180-3590 Technical Report NCEER-88-0010 May 18, 1988 This research was conducted at Clarkson University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and was partially supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. ECE 86-(7591.NOTICE ‘This report was prepared by Clarkson University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a result of research sponsored by the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (NCEER). Neither NCEER, associates of NCEER, its sponsors, Clarkson University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, nor any person acting on their behalf: ‘a, makes any warranty, express ot implied, with respect to the use of any information, apparatus, method, or process disclosed in this report or that such use may not infringe upon privately owned rights; or bb assumes any liabilities of whatsoever kind with respect to the use of, or for damages resulting from the use of, any information, apparatus, method or process disclosed in this report.‘> —___— BASE ISOLATION OF A MULTI-STORY BUILDING UNDER A HARMONIC GROUND MOTION - A COMPARISON OF PERFORMANCES OF VARIOUS SYSTEMS. by Fa-Gung Fan’, Goodarz Ahmadi” and Iradj G. Tadjbakhsh? ” May 18, 1988 ‘Technical Report NCEER-88-0010 NCEER Contract Numbers 86-3021 and 87-2007 NSF Master Contract Number ECE 86-07591 1 Graduate Student, Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Clarkson University 2 Professor, Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Clarkson University 3 Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NATIONAL CENTER FOR EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH, ‘State University of New York at Buffalo Red Jacket Quadrangle, Buffalo, NY 14261