Review Article

Survey on Major Worldwide Regulations on Seismic Base Isolation of Buildings

Table 13

The prescriptions of each code for D, DT, and Fsup.

CountryDesign displacement for isolators (D)Total design displacement for isolators (DT)Design force for the superstructure (Fsup)

Japan
China()
Italy()
The USA (ASCE 7-10 2010)()
The USA (ASCE 7-16 2016)()
Chile()

() These expressions correspond to x direction; the relations for y direction are analogous.