Equivalent viscous damping for new damper

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Gholamreza
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Equivalent viscous damping for new damper

Post by Gholamreza » Wed Jan 27, 2021 6:47 am

Hello Engineers,

I developed a new yielding material for a new damper in C++/Opensees which works just fine and the results are verified with MATLAB.
I would like to evaluate the efficiency of this new damper in tall buildings but I don't know how many dampers per floor should I use!!.... is there any way/document you can tell me to calculate equivalent viscous damping or anything that I have an idea how many dampers I should use or how much dissipated energy I should have in my analysis?

selimgunay
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Re: Equivalent viscous damping for new damper

Post by selimgunay » Tue Feb 02, 2021 3:53 pm

This study can provide good information on the optimized damper locations:

https://peer.berkeley.edu/sites/default ... _mahin.pdf

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