Seismic response control of adjacent buildings linked by fluid dampers

Process in Safety Science and Technology Part A

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 480-487

  Lu, Xilin ^a   Yang, Zhen ^a   Xu, Youlin ^b  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Adjacent buildings; Elasto plastic seismic response; Fluid damper; Numerical simulation; Plastic beam element; Seismic response control; Shaking table test

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMPING; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TALL BUILDINGS;

FLUID DAMPER; LINEAR VISCOUS VELOCITY DAMPER ELEMENT; PLASTIC BEAM ELEMENT; SEISMIC RESPONSE CONTROL;

EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE;

EID: 0036450020     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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