Braced Oil Dampers for Buildings

<p>The high damping force of oil damper vibration control systems in buildings</p><p>offers relative safety during earthquakes and at a low environmental</p><p>cost. The oil damper is connected using braces in series and is installed with</p><p>pins to the building structure, which minimizes the impact on the building</p><p>structure and allows installation and removal with ease.</p><p>This is the first book detailing experimental work and cases of the use of</p><p>oil dampers in buildings. It shows their effectiveness by detailing the testing</p><p>and analysis of buildings with them placed at braced positions, exposed to</p><p>small amplitude vibration, and without them.</p><p>• The only comprehensive presentation of oil damper vibration control</p><p>• Covers analysis and design, with case studies and details of testing</p><p>and experimental results</p><p>The book is organized systematically to suit students and junior professionals</p><p>in structural design as well as more specialist engineers. An additional</p><p>Python code sample is available online for learning the behaviors of oil</p><p>dampers (Jupyter Notebook environment required).</p><p>Osamu Takahashi is a professor at Tokyo University of Science, founder</p><p>of Science Kozo Inc., and an advisor to the New International Structural</p><p>Design & Engineering Challenge Association, in Japan.</p><p>Atsuki Yokoyama works in the Research and Development Department</p><p>of Sanwa Tekki Corporation and has a PhD in Engineering from Tokyo</p><p>University of Science.</p>