## 1 Introduction  
China is a country prone to earthquakes with a seismic of being 6 degrees and above, accounting for about 80% of the country's total land area. During recent strong earthquakes, including the Wenchuan, Yushu and Lushan earthquakes, a large number of low-rise houses have collapsed and been destroyed (Figure 1). Unlike the commodity apartment, the majority of low-rise houses in China are built by local people lacking professional training; such houses are simple in structure and low in cost, but it is often seriously inadequate for earthquake resistance. Therefore, it is necessary to adopt efficient and low-cost measures to improve the anti-seismic capacities of low-rise buildings in high intensity areas. Since the 1960s, seismic isolation technology was introduced to structures, and has become the most mature technical measure in the field of vibration control. Its basic principle is to magnify the natural vibration period and increase the damping of structures, by setting a seismic isolation layer with relatively low stiffness and high damping between the foundation and the superstructure, thereby effectively reducing the structural seismic response [1]. For the devices used in the seismic isolation layer, the laminated rubber bearing is very suitable for urban high-rise buildings, hospitals and other public projects [2], due to its mature manufacturing technology and stable working performance. However, these bearings are expensive and rarely used in low-rise buildings. Therefore, it is meaningful to find a more economic isolation device to improve the seismic performance of low-rise houses. In 1999, [PERSON] [3] suggested that the steel reinforcing plates in the laminated steel rubber bearing can be replaced with fiber reinforcement, and conducted theoretical derivation and experimental research on this fiber reinforced rubber bearing. [PERSON] et al. [4] and [PERSON] et al. [5] compared the mechanical properties of steel-reinforced laminated rubber bearings and fiber-reinforced ones by experiment. [PERSON] et al. [6] further studied the effect of adding lead plug in fiber reinforced elastomeric bearings. [PERSON] et al. [7; 8; 9; 10] studied the shear deformation features and mechanical properties of unbonded fiber-reinforced rubber bearings. By using the finite element method, [PERSON] et al. [11] and [PERSON] et al. [12] compared the mechanical properties of unbonded and bonded fiber reinforced rubber bearings. [PERSON] et al. [13; 14] has proposed partially bonded fiber-reinforced elastomeric isolators, in order to eliminate the defect whereby the unbonded bearings are not capable of resisting tensile forces and potentially slip. [PERSON] et al. [15], [PERSON] et al. [16], [PERSON] et al. [17] and [PERSON] et al. [18] studied the seismic isolation efficiency of applying the bearings to buildings and bridges. In addition to the above researches, in order to reduce the manufacturing cost and production difficulty of the bearing, some scholars studied the influence of changing the manufacturing method, the material and form of the fiber and the rubber material on the bearing. For example, [PERSON] et al. [19] studied the steel like fiber reinforced elastomeric seismic isolators through experiments; [PERSON] et al. [20; 21] made carbon fiber reinforced rubber bearings by the cold vulcanization method; [PERSON] et al. [22; 23] studied the mechanical properties of new types of fiber-mesh-reinforced seismic isolators; [PERSON] et al. [24] introduced the recycled tire rubber as the reinforced fiber to replace steel; [PERSON] et al. [25] and [PERSON] et al. [26] used unsaturated polyester glass fiber reinforced plastic plates as the reinforcement layer. In addition to the above fiber-reinforced rubber bearings, [PERSON] et al. [27] studied the performance of a rubber-layer roller bearing (RLRB), and determined the optimal sizes and dimensions to the component parts of the bearing.