The occurrence of destructive earthquakes and the resulting damages has shown the need for more advanced equipment to protect the building structures against earthquake excitation.
Dear sir, I didn't get your question properly. But, I thing you want to ask more often techniques which is been used with SMRF to resist seismic forces.
1. Bracing systems - Concentric, eccentric, with steel panel, BRBF, BDSP or BDSB,etc
2. Shear wall
3. Negative Stiffness device - University of Buffalo - More advanced
I am not an expert in this field but I think that the present building structures ought to be modified against earthquakes or earth's re-adjustments. Some plastics are stronger than steel (such as Kevlar - a type of Nylon- and the Polycarbonate "Lexan"). I think that there will be advances in plastics bricks or ceramics-plastics bricks or artificial stones combining plastics & ceramics. All this, of course, will not work if an earthquake "swallows" and "buries" a whole village or town as what occured in Algeria some years ago.
Structural control is a recent research area you can consider..Structural control technology has made considerable progress by developing theoretical and experimental researches. Smart control algorithms and technologies being introduced or incorporated in the structural control technology in recent years.
In addition, new smart materials, for example, shape memory alloy, replacing traditional general materials, such as steel and rubber, improve controllers’ performance.
Please have a look at following recent articles:
Eljajeh, Y., & Petkovski, M. (2014). Centralized semi‐active control of post‐tensioned steel frames. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics.
Yanik, A., Aldemir, U., & Bakioglu, M. (2014). A new active control performance index for vibration control of three-dimensional structures. Engineering Structures, 62, 53-64.
Li, H., Song, G., Kim, J. T., & Li, G. (2014). Smart Control Algorithms and Technology in Civil Infrastructures.
Turan, G. (2014). Hybrid Control of a 3-D Structure by Using Semi-Active Dampers. In Seismic Evaluation and Rehabilitation of Structures (pp. 329-340). Springer International Publishing.