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Match the Computer Simulation to the Physical Experiment.

There are many ways to determine what the inter-story stiffness, k, and inter-story damping, c, should be for the small-scale building model. Here is one way to confirm the results from the previous page.

Input the stiffness value k 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.



Henri P Gavin
2002-03-30