Abstract
during the review process; therefore more attention and space was given to the historical background of the device and to the equations describing its behavior. A steel hysteretic device using the same principle was tested and evaluated at the laboratory of the University at Buffalo (of second author), and experimental results indicated that it is a useful and reliable solution for energy dissipation. The steel hysteretic damper is never criticized in the paper; the criticism is directed to the global retrofi t solution which also uses the device. If any statement in the paper raised an ambiguous interpretation, this was not the intent of the authors. The paper by Antonacci et al. (2001) explains the
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