UW CEE Research on Tuned Liquid Dampers

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Instructor: Dorothy Reed
Email: reed@u.washington.edu

Office: 163 Wilcox
Telephone: (206)543-0351

TLD Movie: Yeh, et al.

This movie was recorded as part of the group research conducted by Prof. Harry Yeh, Prof. Dorothy Reed, Dr. Sigardur Gardarsson and Dr. Jinkyu Yu.

TLD movie


Publications on Tuned Liquid Dampers

Flat Bottom Tanks: Reed et al. 1998

Nonlinear Stiffness and Damping Model for Flat Tanks: Yu et al. (1999)

Sloped Bottom Tanks: Gardarsson et al.

Sloped-Bottom Tanks: Olsen and Reed

Yu thesis 1997 scanned part 1

Yu thesis 1997 scanned part 2

Yu thesis 1997 scanned part 3

The following publication is on multiple mass dampers.  It may be applied to TLDs.

Park and Reed (2001)

The following is a presentation I made to the PEER scholars program in 2003.

Presentation 2003

Another useful PhD thesis on TLDs was written by SUN at the University of Tokyo in 1995. The scanned sections are as follows:

SUN Limin thesis 1995 part 1

SUN Limin thesis 1995 part 2

SUN Limin thesis 1995 part 3

SUN Limin thesis 1995 part 4

Prof. Harry Yeh may be contacted at Oregon State University at harry@engr.orst.edu.

Other notable articles on TLD applications include:

Tamura et al. (1995) "Effectiveness of Tuned Liquid Dampers Under Wind Excitation."


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