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.

CaseEarthquakeStory
12345678910–15

1El Centro2222220000
Northridge2222220000
Imperial Valley2222000220
Tianjin2222220000

2El Centro4444220000
Northridge6642200000
Imperial Valley4662000020
Tianjin2444222000

3El Centro4644420000
Northridge6664200000
Imperial Valley6664000020
Tianjin4444440000