The purpose of this study is to verify the transfer function of input acceleration and output control force based on linearizing a damping term of Tuned Liquid Column Damper(TLCD) with nonlinearity analytically. In addition, analysis is conducted for dynamic characteristics according to the design parameter such as section ratio of both vertical and horizontal column and the level of liquid in the vertical column which is used for tuning method. The dynamic characteristics is identified by the analysis for the natural frequency, damping ratio and effective mass ratio of TLCD and a shaking table test for the transfer function. The results indicates that the level of liquid and section ratio affect the characteristics of damping ratio and mass ratio. Damping and mass ratio increase as the section of vertical column of TLCD decreases due to turbulence in the elbow of TLCD.

High-rise apartments of shear wall system are governed by flexural behavior like a cantilever beam. Installation of the damper-brace system in a structure governed by flexural behavior is not suitable. Because of relatively high lateral stiffness of the shear wall, a load is not concentrate on the brace and the brace cannot perform a role as a damping device. In this paper, a friction damper applying flexibility of shear wall is proposed in order to reduce the deformation of a structure. To evaluate performance of the proposed friction damper, nonlinear time history analysis is executed by SeismoStruct analysis program and MVLEM(Multi Vertical Linear Element Model) be used for simulating flexural behavior of the shear wall. It is found that control performance of the proposed friction damper is superior to one of a coupled wall with rigid beam. In conclusion, this study verified that the optimal control performance of the proposed friction damper is equal to 45% of the maximum shear force inducing in middle-floor beam with rigid beam .

This paper proposes a tuned liquid column sloshing damper(TICSD) and its optimal design to mitigate bidirectional responses of building structures. The proposed damper acts as a liquid column vibration absorber (LCVA) and a tuned sloshing damper(TSD), respectively, in both principal axes of building structures. Optimum designs of the TLCSD addresses the minimizing in terms of live load, area and volume due to its installation, comparing to each installation with two dampers in two principal directions, respectively. Numerical results from optimum designs shows that the control robustness due to changes in the effective column length and the effective mass of the TLCSD superiors to that uses the head loss coefficient and damping nets in an existing liquid column vibration absorber(LCVA) and TSD. The TLCSD is designed according to the similarity laws of 76 story benchmark building model. Numerical model of the proposed TLCSD is derived based on the experimentally obtained transfer functions according to rotational angles.