The response control techniques are mainly divided into two categories. One is a storey installation damper type using a damping element such as oil, elasto-plastic, viscoelastic, and so on. The other is an additional mass damper type such as a active and passive type tuned mass damper including a hybrid type. The device configuration of later damper type becomes larger into high-rise structure and long natural period structure because of increase of additional mass in the same case of mass ratio and necessary design stroke of moving mass. In generally, however, it is desired to be a compact size with a same vibration attenuation performance because of that there is a limitation of installation space for the device, and also it is important to be realize the application of the damper with low cost and with a necessary specification for damper performance. This study has been conducted to develop the passive tuned mass damper system using coil spring for long period structure considering a design indexes such as compact size, low cost and robustness. Although a coil spring has been well used by the tuned mass damper system as one way of solving a cost problem and performance stability, the problem of compact size still remains in case of the application to a long period structure. Multistage type is therefore proposed to the system in this time. Furthermore, the distributed TMD theory is applied to the system for robustness of the system. This paper summarizes from a basic theory to the application of proposed device to the real scale long period structure.
Optimal design and performance assessment of multiple tuned mass damper inerters to mitigate seismic pounding of adjacent buildings
