This study deals with the design of a bi-directional liquid damper for a SDOF structure. Two dampers are usually needed to reduce wind-induced responses of tall structures since they are along and across wind ones. The proposed damper has the advantage of controlling both responses with a single damper. The damper shows dynamic behavior of both tuned liquid column damper (TLCD) and tuned sloshing damper (TSD) in the direction of two axes perpendicular with each other. This paper presents experimental verification to confirm its control performance. First, shaking table test is carried out to investigate reducing responses of a SDOF structure by the damper. Control performance of the damper is expressed by the transfer function from shaking table accelerations to SDOF structure ones. Testing results show that the damper reduced bi-directional responses of a SDOF structure. Also, it reduced torsion responses. It was confirmed from system identification results that damping ratio of a SDOF structure increased by the bi-directional liquid damper.

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.