TY - GEN AU - Abdelmaguid Ali Abdelmaguid Khafagi AU - Hussein Ahmed Magahed , TI - Use of base isolation and viscous damping in the seismic analysis of structures / PY - 2007/// CY - Cairo : PB - Abdelmaguid Ali Abdelmaguid Khafagi , KW - boundary elements KW - dual reciprocity KW - ynamics N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty Of Engineering - Department Of Civil Engineering; Issued also as CD N2 - Severe earthquakes may occur in high hazard seismic zones.structures can be designed to withstand ground excitaions by providing ductility capacity to the structural elements , thus allowing damage in the srructural elemrnts other approaches are the concepts of base isolation most of the solution UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -