PASSIVE CONTROL OF BUILDING FRAMES BY MEANS OF LIQUID DAMPERS SEALED BY VISCOELASTIC MATERIAL

1 Department of Architecture, Tohoku Institute of Technology, Sendai, JAPAN Email: kawamata@titan.tohtech.ac.jp 2 High-tech Research Center, Tohoku Institute of Technology, Sendai, JAPAN Email: funaki@titan.tohtech.ac.jp 3 Technical Research Center, HAZAMA Corporation, Tsukuba, JAPAN Email: itogiken@hazama.co.jp PASSIVE CONTROL OF BUILDING FRAMES BY MEANS OF LIQUID DAMPERS SEALED BY VISCOELASTIC MATERIAL