A New Assessment in the Simultaneous Optimization of Friction Dampers in Plane and Spatial Civil Structures

Figure 6

Structural response for stiff soil scenario without control (red curve) and with three optimal friction dampers (blue curve). (a) Displacement at Node 44. (b) Envelope diagrams of maximum displacement per storey. (c) Interstorey drift between fourth and fifth storey. (d) Envelope diagrams of maximum interstorey drift.

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