Seismic Behavior of Structures with Passive Tuned Mass Damper

This thesis reviews the passive tuned mass damper design methods and seismic performance under structures yield. The results of shaking table test which is a 3 story steel frame equipped bilinear-elastic tuned mass damper are proposed. The EL Centro and TCU129 excitations are used for the test. Summarizing the results of a parametric study performed to understand some important characteristics of passive tuned mass damper. The effect of structures equipped three different passive tuned mass damper while prime structures before and after yield. The contribution of the equivalent damping ratio which is from the linear optimal passive tuned mass damper for a SDOF structure before and after prime structure yield. Using the substitute structure approach, the evaluation of seismic performance of structures with passive tuned mass damper is proposed, and the results are verified by dynamic inelastic time history analyses.