Review Article

Survey on Major Worldwide Regulations on Seismic Base Isolation of Buildings

Table 10

Site effects (the USA) in the long period range [12, 22].

Soil type/S1
≤0.10 = 0.2 = 0.30 = 0.4= 0.5≥0.5≥0.6

A0.8/0.80.8/0.80.8/0.80.8/0.8N.A./0.80.8/N.A.N.A./0.8
B1.0/0.81.0/0.81.0/0.81.0/0.8N.A./0.81.0/N.A.N.A./0.8
C1.7/1.51.6/1.51.5/1.51.4/1.5N.A./1.51.3/N.A.N.A./1.4
D2.4/2.42.0/2.21.8/2.01.6/1.9N.A./1.81.5/N.A.N.A./1.7
E3.5/4.23.2/3.32.8/2.82.4/2.2N.A./2.22.4/N.A.N.A./2.0