1.

Introduction
1.1 Introduction 1
1.1 Vibration Control 1
1.2 objectives of the study 3
2. Literature review
2.1 Introduction 4
3. Concept of base isolation
3.1 The Principle in base isolation 10
3.2. Base Isolation system 10
3.3. Base Isolation Consideration 10
4. Base isolation techniques
4.1. Passive Base Isolation Techniques  12
4.1.1 Mud layer Below the Structure  12
4.1.2. Flexible First Storey 12
4.1.3. Roller Bearings in Foundations 12
4.1.4. Rubber Layer as Foundation Support  13
4.1.5. Laminated Rubber Bearing System  13
4.1.6 New Zealand bearing system  13
4.1.7. High damping rubber bearing  14
4.1.8. Spring type systems 14
4.1.9. Sleeved pile isolation system  14
4.1.10. Rocking systems  15
4.1.11. Base isolation using Geo-Synthetic materials 15
4.1.12. BS cushion 15
4.2. Hybrid isolation system with semi-active devices 16
4.3. Hybrid base isolation with passive energy dissipaters  16
4.4. Lead rubber bearing (LRB) 16
5. Response of the Building under Earthquake
5.1 Building frequency and period 18
5.2 Building stiffness 18
5.3 Ductility 18
5.4 Damping 18
6. Design of Isolators
 6.1 The Feasibility of the Isolators 19
6.2 Provision of Effective Stiffness, Damping and Design Displacement 19
6.3 The Load Distribution of the Building 19
6.4 Shear Deformation in Plane 19
6.5 Torsion Effect 20
6.6 Geometrical Locations of Isolators 20
6.7. Properties of LRB 20
7. Methodology
7.1 Parametric Design of LRB Base Isolators as per UBC 2(1997) 22
8. Description and Modeling of Building
8.1 Salient Features of the Symmetrical Building 25
8.2 Salient Features of the Asymmetrical Building 26
8.3 Material Properties 27
8.4 Non Linear Modal Time History Analysis in ETABS 31
9. Some design issues of base-isolated buildings
9.1 Structural Control 34
9.1.1 Introduction 34
9.1.2 Concepts of Passive, Active and Semi-Active Control 34
9.2 Torsion Effect in design of base-isolated buildings 35
9.3 Long Period Excitation 36
9.4 P- d Effect of Isolated Buildings 37
10. Future trends in base isolation 38
11. Advantages and Limitations
11.1 Advantages 39
11.2 Limitations 39
12. Results
12.1 Base Shear 41
12.2 Displacement 42
12.3 Storey Drift 44
12.4 Storey Overturning Moment 45
12.5 Modal Time Period 46
12.6 Acceleration 48
13. Conclusion 51
14. References 52