Base isolation technology offers a cost-effective and reliable strategy for mitigating seismic damage to structures. The effectiveness of this new technology ha

Widely used in civil, mechanical and automotive engineering since the early 1980s, multilayer rubber bearings have been used as seismic isolation devices for bu

This volume consists of papers presented at the International Conference on Earthquake, Blast and Impact held at the University of Manchester Institute of Scien

Each of the volumes for the 1984 conference deals with one or more topics related to earthquake engineering.