A state-of-the-art review is presented on the design and research based on response
amplification dampers. In recent years, energy-dissipation vibration-reduction technology …

Aiming at the situation that some dampers cannot give full play to the energy dissipation
effect during small earthquakes, this paper proposes a displacement-amplified mild steel bar …

Super-elastic shape memory alloys (SMAs) are widely used to mitigate seismic responses of
engineering structures because of their self-centring and energy dissipation characteristics …

This study proposed a winding rope fluid viscous damper (WRFVD) using the winding ropes
to amplify the damping force of a fluid viscous damper. To investigate the dynamic …

A procedure to retrofit existing essential facilities subjected to seismic excitation is proposed.
The main features of this procedure are to reduce maximum acceleration and associated …

This paper presents a new vibration control system based on a seesaw mechanism with
fluid viscous dampers. The proposed vibration control system comprises three parts: brace …

The toggle-brace mechanism has been recognized as an effective installation configuration
of viscous dampers to a stiff structural system. In this paper, a toggle-brace-damper …

This article introduces a novel rotational friction damper to enhance energy dissipation
capacity of structures. The proposed damper contributes to force and energy dissipation …

In this paper, an optimization approach for the seismic retrofitting of inelastic moment
resisting frames (MRFs) equipped with nonlinear fluid viscous dampers (FVDs) and negative …

The negative stiffness spring and inerter are both characterized by the negative stiffness
effect in the force-displacement relationship, potentially yielding an amplifying mechanism …