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EARTHQUAKE SPECTRA
Volume 19, Issue 1, Pages 133-158Publisher
EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE
DOI: 10.1193/1.1540999
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Installation of damping devices has been limited to diagonal or chevron brace configurations until the recent development of the toggle-brace configurations. These configurations magnify the effect of damping devices, thus facilitating their use in stiff framing systems. This paper introduces the scissor-jack-damper system that was developed as a variant of the toggle-brace-damper systems, with the added advantage of compactness. The effectiveness of the scissor-jack configuration is demonstrated through testing of a large-scale steel-framed model structure on an earthquake simulator. Experiments showed that despite the small size of the damping device considered, the scissor-jack system provided a significant amount of damping and substantially reduced the seismic response of the tested structure. Response history and simplified analyses produce results that are consistent with the experimental results.
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