in this paper, seismic behavior of the existing buildings equipped by friction dampers is studied. seismic performance of6-story, 9-story and 12-story steel buildings with damper and without damper were studied. the finite element modeling technique (sap2000 software) is used for analysis. time history analyzing was done to achieve this purpose. for nonlinear dynamic analysis, the responses of ...

Starting from a rate-equation model proposed by Beenakker, we calculate current-voltage characteristics for symmetric and asymmetric vertical quantum dots. We include up to 26 electrons and show how single-electron charge interaction, inelastic scattering, and nonadiabatic subband mixing can enhance the valley current signi6cantly by opening new conduction channels. Subband mixing is the domina...

In this paper, torsional behavior of asymmetric structures with fixed base and isolated base has been compared. Studied Structures are three-dimensional, three and eight story steel structures whose nonlinear time history analysis was conducted based on the records of El Centro earthquake (1940), Tabas earthquake (1978), and Bam earthquake (2003). Analysis results show the efficiency of seismic...