Abstract

ABSTRACT Until recently, the viscous damping ratio pervasively assumed has been . However, the dynamic identification of the experimental response recorded in recent large-scale shake-table tests shows that lower levels of viscous damping are more appropriate when material nonlinearities are explicitly accounted for. This paper investigates a hybrid constant-ductility inelastic displacement ratio, , which identifies the inelastic demand for a viscous damping ratio when the elastic demand for is known. A comprehensive statistical analysis is developed, and analytical estimates are provided, for inelastic single-degree-of-freedom systems with a wide variation of the constitutive parameters and a large earthquake database.

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