Vibration Control in High-Rise Buildings Using Dampers: A Review

https://doi.org/10.46610/JOCBME.2026.v012i03.004

Abstract

As constructions of high-rise buildings are exposed to the conditions of persistent discomfort due to the wind and less frequent and potentially damaging earthquake response, it requires a vibration control system. The increasing flexibility and structural irregularity make it harder to select devices for analysis. This study will examine the damping mechanisms, modelling needs, comparative evidence, and implementation limits of dampers for tall buildings. A systematic full-text review was conducted on a defined corpus of 55 journal papers that had been published or first available online during 2021-2026. The evidence was separated according to the high-rise applications and complementary building-control studies. The overall study-level results were retained with their original response indicators, excitation conditions, and validation scope. The synthesis comprised tuned mass and liquid dampers, viscous and viscoelastic devices, friction and metallic yielding dampers, semi-active systems, inerter-based absorbers, hybrid isolation, and computational optimization. The findings suggest that these properties matter as much as the actual properties of the device. The enhancement of an inerter does not lead to a universal improvement over a classic tuned mass damper. The varying reliability and adjacent-floor configurations are both positive and negative. This is the case because the physical systems and targets differ. In order to decrease the displacement, it doesn’t guarantee lower acceleration, connection force, residual drift, and device failure risk. Despite gains from optimization and machine-learning support in their parameter selection, the conclusions are still conditional on the structural model, earthquake ensemble, and constraints. There is no common multi-hazard benchmark; force and stroke limits are/are not consistently reported. Field validation is not done/was not done on a wide scale, and life cycle assessment comparison is/was not done. Designers should pursue specified performance objectives, attainable connectivity models, and the recording of ensemble verification rather than isolated reductions. A universal technology ranking is less effective than an uncertainty-aware, configuration-aware evaluation for choosing dampers.