STUDIES ON RESPONSE CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES FOR BUILDING STRUCTURES ―Part 2 Behavior and Analysis of the Model Structure with Viscous Damping Walls during Earthquakes―

摘要

This paper is concerned with a new aseismic design method for building structures named ""Structual Response Control Design using Viscous Damping Walls(in brief VD-Wall)"". The VD-Wall's design formulas obtained from a series of tests using high viscous fluid materials and the practical structure with VD-Walls has experienced some earthquakes. The response analyses for the practical structure, using inelastic time-history dynamic analysis，are executed and the results show good agreements with the observations.Some remarks were derived from these results as follows;1) This energy dissipator ""VD-Wall"" can provide sufficient damping to structure and reduce the dynamic response of it.2) The analytical method，presented on this paper，is a simple and sufficiently effective measure to estimate the dynamic response of the structure with VD-Walls.This technology is considered to be practical.