Abstract：In this paper, in view of chinese rural buildings in “small earthquake induced damage” or even “small earthquake induced disaster”, in order to improve their seismic capability, a low cost, simple structure, convenient construction, low maintenance cost of Lead Recycle Tire Pads (LRTP) was researched and developed. Through vertical and horizontal mechanical behavior testings of Lead Recycle Tire Pads (LRTP) and Recycle Tire Pads (RTP), the vertical limit loading capacity, vertical stiffness, ultimate shear capacity，horizontal equivalent stiffness, equivalent damping ratio and other mechanical behavior and failure modes of the above both were comparative analysis in detail, the mechanical behavior of Lead Recycle Tire Pads-LRTP (LRTP) was much better than that of Recycle Tire Pads (RTP) can be found, for ultimate shear capacity and the ultimate shear strain, the former is significantly higher than the latter, and he former has stronger energy dissipation capacity, which was close to that of he common Lead Rubber Bearing (LRB). In additional, Lead Recycle Tire Pads (LRTP) has low cost and environmental protection, so, which is very suitable for used to improve the seismic capacity of rural buildings, so as to reduce casualties and economic losses.
