Many buildings in the Tohoku and Kanto area were strongly shaken during the Great East Japan Earthquake, March 11, 2011. These results are precious data, since the response-control technologies are relatively new and very few systems have been validated through actual earthquakes, there has been some desire to determine their true capabilities. In this paper, recorded and examined results of base-isolated building are discussed. In particular, dynamic properties of a high-rise base-isolated buil
Many buildings in the Tohoku and Kanto area were strongly shaken during the Great East Japan Earthquake, March 11, 2011. These results are precious data, since the response-control technologies are relatively new and very few systems have been validated through actual earthquakes, there has been some desire to determine their true capabilities. In this paper, recorded and examined results of base-isolated building are discussed. In particular, dynamic properties of a high-rise base-isolated buil