**4. Conclusions**

This study revisits the idea of shared TMD for mitigation of seismic pounding between adjacent buildings. Dynamics of an optimal solution reported to be effective in Abdullah et al. [28] is investigated in detail to arrive at the following conclusions.


**Author Contributions:** All authors discussed and agreed upon the idea, and made scientific contributions. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

**Funding:** This research was funded by University of Iceland Research Fund.

**Acknowledgments:** We acknowledge constructive and insightful comments and discussions from two anonymous reviewers and the editors, which helped improve the paper. The authors acknowledge support from the University of Iceland Research Fund.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.
