Design of amplified structural damping using optimal considerations

Journal of Structural Engineering

Volumn 129, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1422-1427

  Ribakov, Yuri ^a,b   Reinhorn, Andrei M ^b  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Damping; Optimization; Seismic response; Structural response

Indexed keywords

OPTIMAL CONSIDERATIONS; SEISMIC RESPONSES; STRUCTURAL DAMPING; STRUCTURAL RESPONSES;

ENERGY DISSIPATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

DAMPING;

EID: 10844233171     PISSN: 07339445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9445(2003)129:10(1422)     Document Type: Article

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