Abstract:Recently the Armenian Missionary Association of America (AMAA) has approached the author of this paper with the request to carry out base isolation retrofitting design for the existing 2-story building with stone bearing walls and to simultaneously convert it into a 3-story kindergarten. In Armenia seismic isolation of existing buildings is becoming a more common method of providing protection from earthquake damage. Thanks to the author’s works in nowadays Armenia is well known as a country where seismic (bas… Show more
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