Abstract: A design methodology for a variation of the conventional liquid column damper (LCD) (by attaching a spring connection to the LCD) as a seismic vibration control device for structures with nonlinear behavior has been proposed ...

Abstract: A closed-form solution for the optimum tuning ratio of a liquid column damper (LCD) that is valid for damped structures subjected to generalized seismic loading is presented. The closed-form expression is based on the ...