Modelling of nonlinear damping characteristics of a viscoelastic structural damper

Engineering Structures

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 154-161

  Horr, A M ^a   Schmidt, L C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Base isolation; Damping; Seismic; Viscoelastic damper

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013241725     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0141-0296(95)00061-5     Document Type: Article

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