Analysis of a Building Structure with Added Viscoelastic Dampers

  • Lee, Dong-Guen (Professor, Dept. of Architecture, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon) ;
  • Hong, Sung-Il (Graduate student, Dept. of Architecture, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon) ;
  • Kim, Jin-Koo (Full-time Lecture, Dept. of Architecture, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon)
  • 발행 : 1998.09.01

초록

Steel structures with added viscoelastic dampers are analysed to investigat their behavior under earthquake excitation. The direct integration method, which produces exact solution for the non-proportional or non-classical damping system, is used throughout the analysis. The results from modal strain energy method are also provided for comparison. Then a new analytical a, pp.oach, based on the rigid floor diaphragm assumption and matrix condensation technique, is introduced, and the results are compared with those obtained from direct integration method and modal strain energy method. The well known phenomenon, that the effectiveness of the viscoelastic dampers depends greatly on the location of the dampers, is once again confirmed in the analysis. It is also found that the modal strain energy method generaly underestimates the responses obtained from the direct integration method, especially when the dampers are placed in only a part of the building. The proposed method turns out to be very efficient with considerable saving in computation this and reasonably accurate considering the reduced degrees of freedom.

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