Evaluating the Effectiveness of a New Self-Centering Damper on a Knee Braced Frame

Table 3

The amount of dissipated energy in cyclic loading (kN).

Cycle nos.	KBF1	KBF2	KBF3	KBF4	KBF5	KBF6
1	0.27	0.17	0.17	0.16	0.15	0.16
2	0.32	0.19	0.19	0.18	0.16	0.17
3	0.35	0.23	0.22	0.21	0.20	0.21
4	3.79	2.78	2.61	2.52	2.56	3.65
5	4.60	3.45	3.24	3.13	3.18	4.54
6	4.65	3.51	3.30	3.19	3.24	4.61
7	43.52	41.62	37.66	35.76	35.38	39.02
8	53.35	51.55	46.65	44.35	43.82	47.67
9	53.94	52.19	47.28	44.97	44.45	48.33
10	1569.32	1388.27	1248.84	1088.14	918.20	1043.29
11	1779.19	1500.47	1332.10	1147.41	957.53	1208.90
12	1765.22	1482.82	1312.31	1127.35	935.43	1206.87
13	4064.99	3873.97	3702.37	3369.25	3195.71	3483.64
14	4159.65	3962.95	3792.53	3339.40	3162.84	3531.63
15	3963.88	3870.59	3715.66	3483.98	3144.59	3514.37
16	6037.96	6269.20	6101.26	5633.05	5457.13	5961.65
17	6058.89	6028.47	5862.50	5653.90	5476.79	6268.22
18	8188.76	8332.33	8189.58	7971.98	8288.35	8508.91
19	7992.34	8205.57	8086.14	7868.83	8289.44	8360.31
Total	45745.00	45070.33	43484.62	40817.76	39959.13	43236.13