Structural Damping

This book describes important principles for dealing with the damping of structures to aid in the analysis and design of supplemental damping to mitigate seismic effects. It reviews basic issues of structural damping, including the maximum energy dissipation principle, the damping adaptivity of devices that can work with a large dynamic range of earthquake load, and the structural cross-effect that needs to be minimized in design practice. The text also examines limitations and the problem of damping and stiffness nonlinearity, which may not be approximated with sufficient accuracy using the simplified present-day approaches.