viscous and viscoelastic dampers

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mohammadzadeh
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viscous and viscoelastic dampers

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Dear Seismosoft team

Thank you so much for very helpful your softwares.Please viscous and viscoelastic dampers models of hysteresis add to SeismoStruct(link element types part).

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ruipinho
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Re: viscous and viscoelastic dampers

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Hi mohammadzadeh,

Do the current response curves available in SeismoStruct (e.g. bl_ kin, plst, etc.) not already allow you to reproduce typical viscous/viscoelastic hysteresis?

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Rui
mohammadzadeh
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Re: viscous and viscoelastic dampers

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Dear Rui
No, because viscous damper force is dependent on velocity.

F = CV^alpha
F = viscous damper force
C = damping constant
V = velocity
alpha = velocity exponent

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ruipinho
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Re: viscous and viscoelastic dampers

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Mohammadzadeh, hi.

Yes, sure, viscous dampers are obviously dependent on velocity, I appreciate that.

However, what typically happens is that their hysteretic response does not really changes that much within the velocity of ranges that one expects in an earthquake (peak values of 20-30 cm/s), this being the reason why often one pragmatically decides not to model such velocity dependence.

You may perhaps try to define hysteretic curves for your viscous dampers for different (realistic) values of velocity, run different structural analyses for each one of those hysteretic models, and see what sort of impact this has on your overall structural response?

You may also perhaps pay a look at some past posts on this topic (I found them by carrying out a search this Forum using the expression "damper velocity"):
- http://www.seismosoft.com/forum/viewtop ... 918&p=4641
- http://www.seismosoft.com/forum/viewtop ... 915&p=4640

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Rui
mohammadzadeh
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Re: viscous and viscoelastic dampers

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Dear Rui

Current response curves in SeismoStruct may use to define viscous dampers based on approximate simplified methods but for exact(and realstic) hysteretic curves need to velocity dependent hysteretic curves.

Damper exact response is needed in some research(not overall structural response).

I read past posts on this topic.The following video is an experimental study on a large-scale steel structure with nonlinear viscous dampers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C8URWbteZM



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Re: viscous and viscoelastic dampers

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Hi mohammadzadeh,

Thank you for your suggestion.
We will consider your request on viscous dampers for inclusion in a future release of SeismoStruct, but unfortunately not in v8, the development of which was completed just last month ( it wll be published in 2-3 months after all the checking and the translations have been carried out).

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mohammadzadeh
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Re: viscous and viscoelastic dampers

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Hi Seismosoft

Thank you so much.
farid
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Re: viscous and viscoelastic dampers

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Dear members
could anybody send me a simple model of viscoelastic damper which modeled in seismostruct?
I think I have a problem in modeling of it.
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Re: viscous and viscoelastic dampers

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Thanks for this valuable information.
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