Duringsevereearthquakes, adjacentbuildingswhicharebuiltwithinsufficient distanceimpacteachothercalledpounding.Thedifference between dynamiccharacteristics ofadjacentstructurescausesout-of-phasevibration whichis themainreasonof pounding.Populationgrowthandlivableurbaace limitationsledtotheplacementofthebuildingswithinsufficient distanceand concentratedinthemostpopulousareas. Therearetwowaysforforce transmissionin structureslocatedbesideeachother.Thefirstis theimpactbetween adjacent floorsandthesecondoneistheforcetransferthroughtheunderlying soilcalledstructure-soil-structure interactionorcrossinteraction. This studyinvestigatestheeffectofpoundingconsideringsoil-structureinteraction andstructure-soil-structureinteraction.Forthispurpose,the equationsof themotion ofstructureswithonedegreeoffreedom with assumingsoil-structureinteraction andcrossinteractionareinvestigated.Thentheeffectofthecrossinteractionon thenaturalfrequencyof the systemandthestructuralresponseare discussed.In addition,thepoundingpossibility basedontheexcitationfrequencies is discussed.The equationsare studiedboth in frequencyand timedomain,and the soilissimulatedbyconcentratedspring-damper system.Inthenextsection, adjacentsteelstructures having3-12storiesarestudiedfor3differentdistances betweenthemand two statesoffixedbaseand flexiblebase.Inthissection,soil- structureinteractionis modeledwithbeamonnonlinearWinklerfoundation, and crossinteractionisapplied with concentratedspring-damper systembetween twoadjacentfoundations.Inthisstudy,Openseessoftwareis usedfortime historyanalysis.Inaddition toahighvarietyofbehavioral modelsforstructural modeling, thissoftwarehasthepotentialofmodelingavarietyofproposed soil behavior.Inthissection,theeffectofdistancebetweentwoadjacentbuildings,soil-structureinteractionandstructure-soil–structureinteractiononreactions suchasimpactforce,displacement, shearforcesandplasticrotationofbeams andcolumnsarediscussed. Key Words: Impact between adjacent buildings, soil-structure interaction, cross interaction, natural frequencies, structural response