Optimum viscous dampers for stiffness design of shear buildings

Structural Design of Tall Buildings

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 217-234

  Tsuji, Masaaki ^a   Nakamura, Tsuneyoshi ^b  

^a KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

DAMPING COEFFICIENTS; INTERSTORY DRIFTS; SHEAR BUILDINGS; STORY STIFFNESS; VISCOUS DAMPERS;

TALL BUILDINGS;

EID: 0030244419     PISSN: 10628002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1794(199609)5:3<217::AID-TAL70>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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