TY - GEN
T1 - Energy based damper design of a structure with a displacement controlled soft-story
AU - Sutcu, Fatih
AU - Inoue, Norio
AU - Hori, Norio
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - A soft-story in a multi-story building may cause excessive displacement, when it is subjected to a severe ground motion. To prevent this effect on the soft story, this paper proposes a displacement controller device with a forcedisplacement relationship of hardening type hysteresis. Moreover, an energy-based damper design method, which assumes a uniform inter-story displacement distribution, is proposed to determine the necessary viscous damping coefficient. The results show that, seismic displacement response of the multi story structure can be effectively reduced under the target inter-story displacement value, with the use of viscous damping coefficient which is obtained by the proposed method.
AB - A soft-story in a multi-story building may cause excessive displacement, when it is subjected to a severe ground motion. To prevent this effect on the soft story, this paper proposes a displacement controller device with a forcedisplacement relationship of hardening type hysteresis. Moreover, an energy-based damper design method, which assumes a uniform inter-story displacement distribution, is proposed to determine the necessary viscous damping coefficient. The results show that, seismic displacement response of the multi story structure can be effectively reduced under the target inter-story displacement value, with the use of viscous damping coefficient which is obtained by the proposed method.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84865849934
SN - 9781615670444
T3 - 8th US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering 2006
SP - 4718
EP - 4727
BT - 8th US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering 2006
T2 - 8th US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering 2006
Y2 - 18 April 2006 through 22 April 2006
ER -