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The concept of damping is generally used to represent the energy dissipated by the structure in the elastic range. Such dissipation is due to various mechanisms such as cracking nonlinearity in the elastic phase of response, interaction with noun-structural elements, soil-structure interaction, etc. As it is very difficult and unpractical to estimate each mechanism individually, the elastic viscous damping represents the combined effect of all of the dissipation mechanisms.

BLANDON C. (2004). "EQUIVALENT VISCOUS DAMPING EQUATIONS FOR DIRECT DISPLACEMENT BASED DESIGN". EUROPEAN SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDIES IN REDUCTION OF SEISMIC RISK



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