Energy dissipation devices are increasingly used as vibration mitigation systems owing to their efficiency. Therefore, many attempts were made to facilitate their design process. The design of fluid viscous dampers is summarized in the selection of suitable damping values and their location in the structure. This paper presents a strategy that estimates the damping coefficient value for nonlinear fluid viscous dampers in a straightforward manner. This minimizes the design time, and thus, more flexibility is offered for further design considerations. Combining a methodology that predicts a linear damping coefficient based on the concept of target-damping ratio, then, applying an equivalent energy-consumption approach to determine the nonlinear damping coefficient. This research gives a description of the method and its implementation by studying a structure equipped with a set of additional fluid viscous dampers. The results illustrate the efficiency and simplicity of the method.

由于其效率，消能装置越来越多地用作减振系统。因此，进行了许多尝试来简化其设计过程。流体粘性阻尼器的设计总结为适当阻尼值的选择及其在结构中的位置。本文提出了一种策略，可以直接估算非线性流体粘性阻尼器的阻尼系数值。这样可以最大程度地缩短设计时间，因此，为进一步的设计考虑提供了更大的灵活性。结合基于目标阻尼比的概念预测线性阻尼系数的方法，然后应用等效能量消耗方法来确定非线性阻尼系数。这项研究通过研究一种配备了一组附加流体粘性阻尼器的结构，对该方法及其实现方法进行了描述。结果说明了该方法的效率和简便性。