Research Article

Estimation of Additional Equivalent Damping Ratio of the Damped Structure Based on Energy Dissipation

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Cumulative energy dissipated by inherent damping and viscous damper and time histories of additional EDR of the SDOF system with the period equal to 1.0 s (the lines of inherent damping and the damper denote the cumulative energy dissipated by inherent damping and damper, respectively). (a) Sine wave, ; (b) sine wave, ; (c) sine wave, ; (d) AWX; (e) NRX.
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