Serviceability performance of buildings founded on rubber–soil mixtures for geotechnical seismic isolation

Base isolation is a low-damage seismic design strategy that can be used for constructing resilient structures. Geotechnical (GSI) new category of emerging base techniques has attracted global interest in the past decade. Research on GSI based rubber-soil mixtures (RSM) focused structural performance under earthquake actions, whilst there are concerns over serviceability limit states (SLS) requirements relation to (i) human comfort strong winds and (ii) ground settlement gravity, which may induce cracking durability issues This article presents first study buildings constructed with GSI-RSM system. The finite element model coupled soil-foundation-structure system been validated by data recorded from geotechnical centrifuge testing. numerical estimates have also compared analytical predictions. It concluded satisfactorily fulfill SLS requirements.