Supplemental damping

Christopoulos C., Filiatrault A., (2006), Principles of Passive Supplemental Damping and Seismic Isolation, lUSSpress, Pavia, Italy... 

Ashour, S. A., Hanson, R. D. (1987). Elastic seismic response of buildings with supplemental damping. Report No. UMCE- 87-1. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Miehigan. 

The purpose of this chapter is to present some of the most notable efforts in optimal damper placement, and to explore the potential of a subset of these for improving building performance. After a general review of available methods, we present a comparison of three optimal placement techniques with two simpler, standard techniques. To do this, the five damper placement techniques are applied to a supplementally damped steel moment resisting frame building. Using nonlinear... 

Levy, R., Lavan, O. (2009). Quantitative comparison of optimization approaches for the design of supplemental damping in earthquake engineering practice. Journal of Structural Engineering, 135(3), 321-325. doi 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9445(2009)135 3(321)... 

According to the design parameters in Table 2, each MTMD unit of the first-mode MTMD is supposed to give a supplemental damping device with optimal c. However, measurements of the... 

Berton, S., Bolander,E. B. (2005). Amplification system for supplemental damping devices in seismic applications. Journal of Structural Engineering, 131(6), 979-983. doi 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9445(2005)131 6(979)... 

Christopoulos C, Filiatrault A (2006) Principles of supplemental damping and seismic isolation. lUSS Press, Milan... 

Friction Dampers for Seismic Protections of Steel Buildings Subjected to Earthquakes Emphasis on Structural Design, Fig. 1 Vibrational energy versus supplemental damping... 

A review of different design procedures from the literature is discussed below. However, in all design procedures, the building structure is composed of a bare frame system and a supplemental damping system, whilst its response is analyzed before and after the friction dampers are activated. 

It is well-known that supplemental damping devices increase the energy dissipation capacity... 

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Consider an RC-circuit with linear resistance R. The charge Q on the condenser obeys macroscopically an equation with damping due to R, and must therefore be supplemented with a noise term,... 

The DF spectra of wurtzite-structure ZnO within the VIS-to-VUV spectral region contain CP structures, which can be assigned to band-gap-related electronic band-to-band transitions Eq with a = A, B,C and to above-band-gap band-to-band transitions E13 with (3 = 1,..., 7. The F -related structures can be described by lineshape functions of the 3DMo-type (3.9 and 3.10), the CP structures with (3 = 3,4 by lineshape functions of the 2DMo-type (3.11), and the CP structures with (3=1,2,5,6,7 can be described by Lorentzian-damped harmonic oscillator functions (3.13). The CP structures Eq are supplemented by discrete (3.14) and continuum (3.16) excitonic contributions. Tables 3.9 and 3.10 summarize typical parameters of the CPs Eq and E, respectively, of ZnO [15]. 

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Early in the fall, especially in years with warm, dry weather, it is possible to dry soybeans to <13% moisture with no supplemental heat (see the previous section on natural-air drying). FFowever, late in the fall, or in years with cool, damp weather,... 

A complete description of the viscoelastic properties of a material requires information over very long times. To supplement creep and stress relaxation measurements which are limited by experimental limitations, experiments are therefore performed in which an oscillating stress or strain is applied to the specimen. These constitute an important class of experiments for studying the viscoelastic behavior of polymeric solids. In addition to elastic modulus, it is possible to measure by these methods the viscous behavior of the material in terms of characteristic damping parameters. 

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