Seismic Control of Tall Buildings Using Distributed Multiple Tuned Mass Dampers

Table 8

Comparison between controlled and uncontrolled drifts and absolute accelerations of the top story for different earthquake excitations.

Earthquake	Max. drift (uncontrolled)	Max. drift (controlled)	Max. absolute acceleration (uncontrolled, )	Max. absolute acceleration (controlled, )
Bam	0.0184	0.0172	34.94	17.32
El Centro	0.0128	0.0111	20.99	16.11
Kobe	0.0079	0.0066	25.72	21.40
Manjil	0.0159	0.0074	28.51	9.30
Northridge	0.0178	0.0146	23.87	15.55
Landers	0.0282	0.0262	28.94	14.79
San Fernando	0.0092	0.0075	21.61	12.35