r.s JANGID - Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Powai, Bombay - ۴۰۰۰۷۶ (India)
t.k datta - Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Hauzkhas, New Delhi - ۱۱۰۰۱۶ (India)

Response of one-storey model of torsionally coupled building with sliding support to two component random ground motion is obtained and analyzed under different parametric variations to investigate the effectiveness of the sliding support. The effectiveness is studied by obtaining the response with and without considering interaction between the two lateral frictional resistances of the sliding support on the criterion of sliding.