Seismic Response of a Building using Viscous Dampers

Author(s):

Madhuri M. Dabhi , ShankersinhVaghelaBpu Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar; Alpa A. Sutariya, ShankersinhVaghelaBpu Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar; Soumya Sinha, ShankersinhVaghelaBpu Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar

Keywords:

Passive Energy Dissipation devices, Response Quantities, Uncontrolled Building and Controlled Building

Abstract:

Earthquakes are one of the major natural hazards and responsible for the lives of thousands of people and damage to the structures. The main objective of this paper is to control the seismic response of building subjected to four different types of earthquake ground motions namely Elcentro, Kobe, Northridge and Loma Prieta using viscous dampers. A five storey building is considered and designed is done using E-Tabs software and various response quantities like displacement; acceleration and inter-storey drift are extracted. It is observed that controlled building shows moderate range of reduction for all response quantities as compared to uncontrolled building.

Other Details:

Manuscript Id	:	IJSTEV2I11329
Published in	:	Volume : 2, Issue : 11
Publication Date	:	01/06/2016
Page(s)	:	804-807

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