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Although the majority of building codes around the world recommend the use of some equations of various distances between structures to avoid pounding; a lot of reports after earthquakes have obviously shown that safety situation or economic consideration is not always provided due to the collisions between buildings and high cost of land; respectively. The aim of the present paper is to focus the analysis on the properties of structures and conduct an in-depth analysis of available methods to control interstory deflections so as to prevent pounding. For this purpose, a numerical lumped mass model of the five-story building has been considered and its response under different earthquake records has been investigated. Firstly, the influence of the change in structural properties (story stiffness; mass and damping) has been examined. Then the application of tuned mass damper, base isolation and base isolation with rubber bumpers has been considered. The results of comparative analyses clearly indicate that using base isolation, with the addition of bumpers, can be selected as the best method to control building deflections and decrease absolute lateral displacement between two buildings so as to prevent their pounding during earthquakes<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/geosciences10020075","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,2,19]],"date-time":"2020-02-19T04:06:01Z","timestamp":1582085161000},"page":"75","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Study on Methods to Control Interstory Deflections"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Seyed Mohammad","family":"Khatami","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Center of Semnan Municipality, University of Applied Science and Technology, Semnan 98 23, Iran"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4179-7816","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hosein","family":"Naderpour","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Civil Engineering, Semnan University, Semnan 98 23, Iran"}]},{"given":"Seyed Mohammad Nazem","family":"Razavi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Civil Engineering, Isfahan University, Isfahan 031, Iran"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9510-144X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rui Carneiro","family":"Barros","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP), 351-22 Porto, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4616-0010","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Anna","family":"Jakubczyk-Ga\u0142czy\u0144ska","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Gdansk University of Technology, 80-233 Gdansk, Poland"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6741-115X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Robert","family":"Jankowski","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Gdansk University of Technology, 80-233 Gdansk, Poland"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,2,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"443","DOI":"10.1002\/eqe.4290160311","article-title":"Pounding of building in series during earthquakes","volume":"16","author":"Anagnostopoulos","year":"1988","journal-title":"Earthq. 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