Research Article

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

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Time histories of additional EDRs obtained by the strain energy method under different sine waves of the SDOF system with the period equal to 1.0 s and hysteresis curve of the viscous damper for the system under the sine wave with . (a) Sine wave, ; (b) sine wave, ; (c) sine wave, ; (d) hysteresis curve of damper.
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