Seismic Energy Assessment of Buildings with Tuned Vibration Absorbers

Table 1

Peak energy for the uncontrolled building and controlled with STVA and d-TVAs having mass ratio of 0.05.

Energy (m^2/sec^2)	Imperial Valley, 1940			Northridge, 1994			Kobe, 1995
	NC	STVA	d-TVAs	NC	STVA	d-TVAs	NC	STVA	d-TVAs
Total	0.429	0.484	0.608	0.544	0.572	0.643	0.155	0.158	0.165
Damping	0.423	0.476	0.584	0.408	0.519	0.559	0.143	0.151	0.152
Kinetic	0.290	0.223	0.215	0.283	0.200	0.117	0.074	0.072	0.070
Strain	0.160	0.110	0.097	0.203	0.179	0.172	0.045	0.041	0.032