The applicability of high-damping rubber bearings for seismic isolation of residential buildings in Turkey is studied using numerical and experimental approaches. Seismic isolation system composed of high-damping rubber bearings is designed according to the recently updated Turkish Building Seismic Code-2018 (TBSC2018). Three model buildings of different height at assumed seismically active area are chosen from an actual building database, on which, equivalent lateral force procedure, and time history analyses are carried out.

The seismic responses of the buildings are evaluated and the seismic isolation system's efficiency is confirmed. It is pointed out that the requirements in the new code in terms of the maximum allowable shear strain of elastomeric isolators are excessively conservative for those isolators with much larger capacity which is verified by sufficient test data, and as a result, designed isolator size becomes larger than necessary from a practical aspect. In order to verify the isolator design without compliance of shear strain limitation in the code, full-scale prototypes of high-damping rubber bearings are specially designed, developed and are subjected to dynamic loading test under test protocol specified in the code. The specific values of test conditions, such as compressive force, shear displacement and frequency, are developed referring several projects in Turkey. The results are comprehensively discussed and the applicability of high-damping rubber bearing for seismic isolation of residential buildings in Turkey is concluded with numerical and experimental approaches and a possible modification of TBSC2018 regarding maximum shear strain is proposed.

利用数值和实验方法研究了高阻尼橡胶轴承在土耳其住宅建筑中的隔震性能。根据最近更新的《土耳其建筑地震规范2018》（TBSC2018），设计了由高阻尼橡胶轴承组成的地震隔离系统。从实际的建筑物数据库中选择假定的地震活动区域处的三座不同高度的模型建筑物，并在其上进行等效的横向力过程和时程分析。

对建筑物的地震响应进行了评估，并确定了隔震系统的效率。需要指出的是，新规范中关于弹性隔离器的最大允许剪切应变的要求对于那些容量更大的隔离器而言过于保守，并通过足够的测试数据进行了验证，结果，设计的隔离器尺寸变得更大从实际角度来看是不必要的。为了在不符合规范中剪切应变限制的情况下验证隔离器设计，专门设计，开发了高阻尼橡胶轴承的全尺寸原型，并根据规范中指定的测试协议进行了动态载荷测试。测试条件的特定值，例如压缩力，剪切位移和频率，是针对土耳其的几个项目而开发的。对结果进行了全面讨论，并通过数值和实验方法总结了高阻尼橡胶轴承在土耳其住宅建筑中的适用性，并提出了关于最大剪切应变的TBSC2018的可能修改方案。