Research Article
Effectiveness of Friction Dampers in Seismic and Wind Response Control of Connected Adjacent Steel Buildings
Table 1
Modeling properties of the elastic-plastic friction damper (FD).
| Properties of friction damper | Values |
| Effective stiffness | 0 | Stiffness | 5000k, k is the stiffness of each storey | Yield strength | 0.3 W, W is the storey weight | Postyield stiffness ratio | 1 × 10−6 | Yielding coefficient | 20 |
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