Proceedings of SOFTech Workshop for Young Researchers 2020
Volume, Number, Page
Published date
Feb. 13, 2020
Publisher
Japanese:
社会活動継続技術共創コンソーシアム SOFTech
English:
Consortium for Socio-Functional Continuity Technology SOFTech
Conference name
Japanese:
English:
SOFTech Workshop for Young Researchers 2020
Conference site
Japanese:
横浜
English:
Yokohama
File
Abstract
Viscoelastic (VE) dampers are known to be effective in mitigating structural vibrations of long-period tall buildings. Their dynamic mechanical properties (i.e., damping and stiffness) are highly dependent to the loading frequency and temperature. The co-authors had previously proposed a simplified performance evaluation method for full-scale brace-type VE dampers. However, the VE dampers they evaluated had almost the same ambient temperatures. For this, the authors of this current study conducted low ambient temperature tests and used the results to extend the original performance evaluation method mentioned above to cater wider range of initial temperatures.