There are many ways to determine what the inter-story stiffness, , and inter-story damping, , should be for the small-scale building model. Here is one way to confirm the results from the previous page.
Input the stiffness value determined from the physical experiment questions above into the computer simulation. Re-run the computer simulation with a frequency range from 1 Hz to 12 Hz. Does the computer simulation match the physical experiment? To improve the match, try modifying the damping in the computer simulation.