The response of structures equipped with tuned liquid dampers of complex geometry

Tuned liquid dampers (TLDs) employ sloshing fluid to reduce the resonant response of structures. Existing structure-TLD models are limited to rectangular or circular tanks, shapes that may not always be feasible in practice due to geometric restrictions of the building floor plan. This paper utilizes an equivalent linearized mechanical model and a nonlinear multimodal model to predict the response of the structure-TLD systems where the TLD tank …