Research Article
Study on Optimal Placement and Reasonable Number of Viscoelastic Dampers by Improved Weight Coefficient Method
Table 4
Number of dampers on each story for three cases.
| Case | Earthquake | Story | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10–15 |
| 1 | El Centro | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Northridge | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Imperial Valley | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | Tianjin | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | El Centro | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Northridge | 6 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Imperial Valley | 4 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | Tianjin | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | El Centro | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Northridge | 6 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Imperial Valley | 6 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | Tianjin | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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