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

Table 7

Story drift of the structure with dampers for case 3 (mm).

Story	El Centro	Northridge	Imperial Valley	Tianjin
1	4.23	6.12	4.14	10.00
2	5.01	7.58	5.13	14.59
3	5.91	7.00	4.82	14.16
4	6.21	8.51	7.64	13.51
5	6.72	10.11	12.71	12.51
6	9.94	13.58	14.80	13.27
7	11.07	12.70	13.08	17.22
8	13.48	11.13	10.09	17.69
9	12.72	9.25	6.09	16.59
10	10.74	7.30	6.44	14.59
11	8.37	5.75	6.42	12.87
12	6.43	4.71	5.77	10.40
13	4.72	3.48	5.25	7.86
14	3.91	2.47	4.50	5.29
15	2.43	1.71	2.81	2.83