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Efficiency of Viscous Damping in Seismic Energy Dissipation and Response Reduction

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Input energy accumulates at a specific rate, and viscous damping dissipates the accumulated input energy at a slower pace. The difference between the two energy time histories at a time t is the vibration energy Ev(t), which is the sum of kinetic and potential energies at time t. Maximum displacement occurs shortly after Ev attains its maximum value during the following cycle when potential energy is maximum and kinetic energy is zero. An efficient damping produces lower Ev, accordingly lower maximum displacement. We choose to define the damping efficiency as the ratio of dissipated energy ED to input energy EI at the time tmax when Ev(t) attains its maximum value for a SDOF system with period T. The influence of earthquake magnitude, fault distance, soil type and fault type on damping efficiency are assessed here under a large set of earthquake ground motions that represent the distribution of such characteristics effectively. A large set of free-field strong motion records are selected from the NGA database. Damping ratio, soil class, distance to epicenter (Repi), moment magnitude (Mw), and fault mechanism are selected as the basic parameters in order to characterize source and site properties of ground motions. Based on the employed GM database, it has been found that damping efficiency is affected most by the earthquake magnitude, soil type, and expectedly by the damping ratio.

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    Halûk Sucuoğlu

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Alıcı, F.S., Sucuoğlu, H. (2021). Efficiency of Viscous Damping in Seismic Energy Dissipation and Response Reduction. In: Benavent-Climent, A., Mollaioli, F. (eds) Energy-Based Seismic Engineering. IWEBSE 2021. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 155. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73932-4_17

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