Optimal design of supplemental viscous dampers for irregular shear-frames in the presence of yielding

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 889-907

  Lavan, Oren ^a   Levy, Robert ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Global damage index; Irregular structures; Passive control; Supplemental viscous damping; Yielding frames

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DAMPING; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL FRAMES;

GLOBAL DAMAGE INDEX (GDI); GROUND MOTIONS; SHEAR FRAMES; VISCOUS DAMPERS;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING;

EID: 21344465838     PISSN: 00988847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eqe.458     Document Type: Article

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