“…Most structural designers are looking for sophisticated methods for finding the most efficient location and quantity of passive dampers, see for example Xia and Hanson (1992), Inoue and Kuwahara (1998), Uetani et al (2003), Takewaki (2009), Aydin et al (2007), Lavan and Levy (2010), Adachi et al (2013aAdachi et al ( , 2013b and Fujita et al (2014). In the design using linear and nonlinear viscous dampers, many useful methods have been developed (Uetani et al, 2003;Takewaki, 2007;Aydin et al, 2007;Attard, 2007;Lavan and Levy, 2010;Adachi et al, 2013aAdachi et al, , 2013b.…”