Study on Optimal Placement and Reasonable Number of Viscoelastic Dampers by Improved Weight Coefficient Method

<table class="table-group" width="800px"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><img alt="358709.fig.007a" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/mpe/volume-2013/358709/figures/358709.fig.007a.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(a) </b>El Centro</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><img alt="358709.fig.007b" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/mpe/volume-2013/358709/figures/358709.fig.007b.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(b) </b>Northridge</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="c"><td><img alt="358709.fig.007c" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/mpe/volume-2013/358709/figures/358709.fig.007c.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(c) </b>Imperial Valley</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="d"><td><img alt="358709.fig.007d" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/mpe/volume-2013/358709/figures/358709.fig.007d.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(d) </b>Tianjin</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<table>Comparison of story drift of the structure with and without dampers.</table>

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