- Main article: Earthquake engineering
Base isolation is the most powerful tool of the earthquake engineering pertaining to the passive structural vibration control technologies. It is meant to enable a building or non-building structure to survive a potentially devastating seismic impact through a proper initial design or subsequent modifications. In some cases, application of base isolation can raise both a structure's seismic performance and its seismic sustainability considerably. Contrary to popular belief base isolation does not make a building earthquake proof.

Base isolation demonstration at The Field Museum[2]
- Isolation units are the basic elements of base isolation system which are intended to provide the mentioned decoupling effect to a building or non-building structure.
- Isolation components are the connections between isolation units and their parts having no decoupling effect of their own.

Mausoleum of Cyrus, the oldest base-isolated structure in the world[citation needed]

Base-isolated [5] LA City Hall
See also
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- Earthquake engineering structures
- Elevated building foundation
- Geotechnical engineering
- Seismic retrofit
References
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- ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqlXp3czrrM[unreliable source?]
- ↑ The Field MuseumTemplate:Specify
- ↑ Lead Rubber Bearing being tested at the UCSD Caltrans-SRMD facility, YouTube[unreliable source?]
- ↑ Hybrid Simulation of Base Isolated Structures, YouTube[unreliable source?]
- ↑ Los Angeles City Hall[dead link]
- ↑ Seismic Isolation Projects in Japan
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