ENGINEERING DESIGN OF SEISMIC ISOLATED BUILDINGS

Abstract

These study reveals, and assess the safety level in Seismic architectural design, for research buildings, that use radioactive materials, the best design that fulfill the required safety of nuclear installation was treated. Seismic base isolation or base isolation system is one of the most popular means of protection against earthquake forces. The objective of present study is to raise the awareness, within architectural community with the impact of natural seismicity on buildings design. In order to search the possible ways of incorporating architecture-based seismic design issues into the architectural design process. The case study is dealt with, the roles and the responsibilities of architects in seismic design. The critical importance of the architecture-based seismic design issues are defined as well as the importance of the topic for main research areas. Hypotheses are explained. And it is results are analyzed.