ABSTRACT
In this chapter, four different models for adjacent buildings with either the same stiffness or different stiffness are designed by using SAP 2000n package program. It discusses different types of coupled buildings in order to investigate the benefits of fluid viscous dampers. The chapter provides a brief overview of earthquake time histories to examine the seismic behaviour of the two buildings in all the examples, and describes the building models as frame buildings. For all models, the damper damping coefficient remains unchanged. The first example is two 5-storey buildings having 2-bay reinforced concrete frames. The second example is one 10-storey Building A and one 5-storey Building B where each building consists of 2-bay reinforced concrete frames. The third example is one 20-storey Building A and one 10-storey Building B that include 2-bay reinforced concrete frames. The fourth example is two 20-storey reinforced concrete buildings having different stiffness in each building.
