A Design Office Approach to Supplemental Damping Using Fluid Viscous Dampers

By Steel Construction New Zealand · February 2013

Modern seismic design is strongly founded on the concept of energy absorption through reliable ductile behaviour. The application of Capacity Design (Park and Paulay, 1975; Paulay and Priestley, 1992) and acceptance that a structure will sustain damage has been well demonstrated to achieve acceptable Life-