Equivalent viscous damping for new damper

[Gholamreza]

Hello Engineers,

I developed a new yielding material for a new damper in C++/Opensees which works just fine and the results are verified with MATLAB.
I would like to evaluate the efficiency of this new damper in tall buildings but I don't know how many dampers per floor should I use!!.... is there any way/document you can tell me to calculate equivalent viscous damping or anything that I have an idea how many dampers I should use or how much dissipated energy I should have in my analysis?

[selimgunay]

This study can provide good information on the optimized damper locations:

https://peer.berkeley.edu/sites/default ... _mahin.pdf