An investigation of tuned liquid dampers equipped with damping screens under 2D excitation

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 719-735

  Tait, M J ^a   El Damatty, A A ^b   Isyumov, N ^b,c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c The Alan G Davenport Wind Engineering Group   (Canada)

Author keywords

2D excitation; Energy dissipation; Non linear; Sloshing liquid; Tuned liquid damper (TLD); Uncoupled

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; ENERGY DISSIPATION; LIQUID SLOSHING; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

2D HORIZONTAL EXCITATION; DAMPING SCREENS; SURFACE MOTION; TUNED LIQUID DAMPERS (TLD);

WATER TANKS;

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING;

EID: 19944390684     PISSN: 00988847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eqe.452     Document Type: Article

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