SEISMIC RESPONSE CONTROL DESIGN PROCEDURE OF R/C MULTI-STORY ASYMMETRIC BUILDINGS USING VISCO-ELASTIC DAMPERS

Abstract

A seismic response control design procedure of reinforced concrete multi-story asymmetric building using visco-elastic dampers is proposed in this paper. In this procedure, the size of dampers are determined based on equivalent linearization technique and using two idealized model, equivalent single-story model and equivalent SDOF model. The applicability of the proposed procedure is examined through nonlinear time-history analyses of four-story asymmetric frame building models. The results show that the peak story drift of building models with dampers are within the target story drift.