Study on Optimal Placement and Reasonable Number of Viscoelastic Dampers by Improved Weight Coefficient Method

Table 5

Story drift of the structure with dampers for case 1 (mm).

Story	El Centro	Northridge	Imperial Valley	Tianjin
1	6.38	9.19	7.09	13.06
2	9.59	13.15	10.75	20.25
3	10.02	12.76	10.86	20.44
4	10.18	11.79	11.50	20.05
5	10.08	10.66	13.19	18.77
6	11.05	10.17	13.31	18.88
7	12.37	12.04	10.82	20.44
8	13.02	10.74	6.24	19.63
9	13.77	8.99	4.63	17.95
10	12.61	7.44	5.58	15.69
11	11.16	6.34	5.25	13.74
12	9.16	4.87	5.14	11.12
13	7.02	3.66	4.63	8.40
14	5.48	2.65	3.87	5.65
15	3.32	1.87	2.22	3.02