Control of seismically excited building structures using variable damper systems

Engineering Structures

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 279-287

  Loh, Chin Hsiung ^a   Ma, Ming Jin ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Active structural control; Passive structural control; Structural dynamics

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; SEISMIC RESPONSE; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; VIBRATION;

EID: 0029730583     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0141-0296(95)00148-4     Document Type: Article

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